The Topeka State Journal (Topeka, Kansas)
January 28, 1904

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LARGEST DAILY I 10 PAGES IN KANSAS. j IN KANSAS. LAST EDITION. THURSDAY EVENING. TQPEKA. KANSAS, JANUARY 28. 1904. THURSDAY EVENING. TWO CENTS. 4 6 SHALL THEY DRINK Lawyers Have an Exciting Argument Today. Question of Serving Liquor at Their Banquets. PUNCH WAS SPIKED Charge Made by Judge T. F. Garver Today. Also That Annex With Strong Liquor Was Maintained. President Slonecker Defends the Executive Committee. To drink or not to drink that is the Question. At the morning session of the twenty first annual convention of the Kansas State Bar association the liquor ques tion figured largely in the business of the meeting. At 12 o'clock, when the programme had been completed and the members were hunting for their hats and overcoats preparatory to go ing to dinner. Judge T. P. Garver, of this city, arose from his chair and in emphatic terms denounced the action of the executive council of the associa tion for providing intoxicating liquors at the annual banquets of the associa tion. Judge Garver then made a mo tion that the association instruct the members of the executive council to hereafter see that no liquor is served at the annual banquets of the associa tion. "I have been a member of this asso ciation for twenty-one years," said juage tiarver, "and at all of the ban quets which I have attended during that time a very strong preparation called punch has been served, and I understand that a sort of an annex has been operated where those members of the association who were not satisfled with the punch could obtain that which was more suitable to their tastes. "I, myself, have had no trouble in resisting these temptations but as you are all aware there are many mem bers of this association who have had a long hard fight in endeavoring to bring into subjection their craving for strong drink and I do not think that it is right that we should offer them at our banquets that which is likely to undo all of the good that has been done. There are many to whom one drink means a spree and they go home from one of these meetings in Topeka regret ting that they ever saw the city. In fart I know of several cases where members of this association have been taken home from our banquets, drunk. "I think that the practice of serving liquor at the banquets given by this association is not in accordance with the spirit of the laws of this state and we as lawyers and representatives from the courts of the state of Kansas should not tolerate it for a moment. I do not know who has been responsible for what has been done In the past but as the banquets come under the supervis ion of the members of the executive council I move that we recommend that body to see to it that no liquor is served at the banquets given by this association hereafter." Judge Garver's motion was immed iately seconded by one of his supporters but before the motion could be put to a vote of the association Judge J. G. Slonecker, president of the association, and also of Topeka, arose and spoke in opposition to the movement. He said: "I do not think that when this asso ciation was organized it was with the purpose of regulating or restricting any of the members' personal wishes or opinions. It has been implied that the members of the executive council are to blame for what has occurred in the past, and as I have been a member of that body I want to say a word in their defense. "It is true that the provisions for these banquets are looked after by the members of the executive council, but in justice to those gentlemen I think the situation should be explained clear ly. Heretofore anything which they have done has been governed largely by the opinions of the majority of the members of this association. I do not want you to infer from what I have uaid that I approve of the custom which has obtained heretofore and to which Judge Garver has referred. In fact it does rot concern me one way or the other. But I do think that it is due the members of the executive council that you should know that their action in the provision of these ban quets has had the hearty approval of at least 00 per cent, of the members of the association." W. J. Costigan, of Ottawa, stipported Slonecker. LIQUOR AT THE BANQUET. When seen this afternoon and asked if he thought the resolutions introduced by Judge Garver this morning would have any effect upon the banquet at the Copeland hotel tonight. Judge, J. G. Slonecker, president of the Kansas State Bar association, said: "I do not know what effect Judge fiarver's resolution will have on the banquet. The resolution has not yet been passed and will not be taken up again until near the end of this after noon's session." V Mr. L. H. Perkins, chairman of the executive committee is said to be in favor of Judge Gr.rver's resolution be ing adopted but it is thought that in spite of these obstacles, liquor will be served at the banquet tonight. D .A Valentine said: "X cannot imagine how Judge Car ver's resolution will., affect tonight's banquet. Liquor may not be served outright but I imagine that those who want it will be able to get it." S100 A MILE Will Bo Paid ior Locating a State Boundary Line. "Washington, Jan. 2S. The interior de partment has arranged for a complete purvey of the boundary line between Idaho and Montana and Howard B. Carpenter of California, has been ap pointed United States surveyor to con duct the work. The survey, it is said, will take about two years. Under the contract the government will pav Car penter at the rate of $100 for every mile of boundary permanently established. Kicker Is Arrested. The police this afternoon arrested Ike Kicker for running a joint over Law less' stable. A keg of beer, beer pump md table were confiscated. ARE FOR BAILEY. County Attorney Williams' Statement About Cherokee. County Attorney Williams of Cherokee county is in Topeka today. He says he believes Cherokee will elect a Bailey del egation to the state convention, regard less of reports to the contrary circulated by the boss busters. "Cherokee will not, of course, instruct for anybody for governor," said Mr. Wil liams, "because we have a candidate of our own. George Whatley, and the dele gation will be lor Wheatley for railroad commissioner. The sentiment of the county, though, is for Bailey. Dick Blue lives down there and his home standing is such that when one mentions the fact that he is mixed up with the Hoch move ment the majority of the people are against it right away." HAZEN FOR JUDGE. Movement to Give Him Nomina tion for Supreme Bench. The friends of Judge Z. T. Hazen are preparing to advance his name as a candidate for the nomination for asso ciate justice of the supreme court at the i Republican convention at Wichita should the proper opportunity present itself. Judge Hazen has been urged by friends in Topeka and by lawyers and j district judges in all parts of the state to announce himself as a candidate for the supreme bench. Judge Hazen has declined to make such an announcement I or to make an active canvass for the nomination. Should the nomination be made, however, he would accept it. I During the meeting of the State Bar association a good many attorneys have talked of Judge Hazen for the supreme court. It is likely that the Shawnee delegation will be ready at the Wichita convention to notninate Judge Hazen should there be a fight on any of the supreme court judges who are after renomination. The First district has no judge on the supreme bench, and there is no other candidate mentioned from Shawnee county except Hazen. Under the law no district judge can assume any other appointive or elective I office during his term as judge. Should Hazen be nominated and elected he would not become supreme judge until after his term as district judge ex pired. IN LEAVENWORTH. Both Sides Working Hard to Carry Primaries. Leavenworth, Kan., Jan. 28. Repub lican primaries are being held in Leav enworth county this afternoon and even ing for the selection of delegates to the Republican county convention which will meet tomorrow to elect delegates to the state and congressional conven tions. There is a'great deal of interest in the contest, especially in the congressional fight. The Curtis people are putting up a ticket' in every ward, and the impres sion prevails that they are simply pre paring to bolt the convention tomorrow and send a contesting delegation to the congressional and state conventions, as was the programme in Jackson county, and as will be done in Atchison. The primaries in the city will be open from 5 to 7 this evening. At the Sol diers' home they are open from 2 to 5 this afternoon. The contest is close at the Soldiers' home, and both sides are putting forth their utmost efforts to carry it. A dozen men from Topeka are reported in different parts of the county, and it is rumored that considerable money is be ing spent. ANOTHER COLD WAVE. Temperature Again on a Slide in Kansas. The cold weather in the north and northwest on Wednesday was felt in Topeka today to a lesser degree, and the government thermometer registered 7 decrees above zero between 8 and 9 o'clock. The wind was northwest, but at 9 o'clock shifted to the west, blowine 10 miles an hour. The forecast for Kan sas sent out today was "Generally fair tonight and Friday. Warmer Friday and west portion tonight." The mini mum temperatures reported from the north Wednesday were as follows: Duluth. 24 degrees below zero: Huron, 20 below; St. Raul, 22 below, and Min- nedosa, 40 below. The hourly tempera tures recorded today by the govern ment thermometer were as follows: 7 o'clock 10 I 11 o'clock 7 8 o'clock 8 I 12 o'clock 8 9 o'clock 8 1 o'clock 9 10 o'clock 8 I 2 o'clock 10 Wind 14 miles from the north at 2 p. m. MAKES NEW RECORD. Clark's Special Beat Lowe's Time 25 Minutes. Chicago, Jan. 2S The Santa Fe spe cial on which Charles W. Clark start ed in a record breaking attemnt to reach the bedside of his dyins wife in New York, reached Chicago at 1:50 p. m. today. Mr. Clark had been notified of his wife's death. The special, which left Albuquerque, N. M., at 5:45 a. m. yesterday, made the trip to Chicago. 1.377 miles, in 32 hours and 5 minutes, which is four hours and 55 minutes faster than the time of the Santa Fe's fast California Limited, and 25 minutes faster than the time of the west bound Lowe special of last Aug ust. Mr. Clark went from the station to the -Auditorium annex, and at fi:30 o'clock this afternoon he will take the Lake Shore limited for New York. Election Bow in Cuba. Cienfuegos, Cuba, Jan. 28. The dis turbances over the election contests culminated last night in a fight between the adherents of the rival political lead ers and ended in a riot in which one man was killed and several men were wounded. Farmer's Sudden Death. Minneapolis, Kas.. Jan. 28. Ben Wat son, one of the oldest settlers in this county, fell dead at his home in this city Wednesday. Mr. Watson was a wealthy farmer and stock dealer. VERDICUUICIDE. All Doubts Regarding Cause of Whitaker Wright's Death Set at Rest by Evidence at Coroner's Inquest. TOOK PRUSSIC ACID. Had a Revolver Ready Cocked in His Pocket. Some Features of the Promot er's Remarkable Career. London. Jan. 23. "Suicide" was the verdict passed by the coroner's jury to day in the closing chapter of the trag edy of Whitaker Wright. His death was caused by poisoning by cyanide of potassium. The jury found that Wright was perfectly sane and that there was not the slightest doubt that his death was due to most deliberate suicide. From the evidence at the in quest it was shown that Wright had determined to take his own life in the event of an adverse verdict and that he went to court with a cyanide tab loid in his possession while in his hip pocket was a new revolver fully loaded and even cocked. After the sentence Wright went to the lavatory while the tip staff in attendance on him remain ed outside. There he swallowed the tabloid, returning to the consulting room washed down the poison with whisky and water and died. One of the last things Wright said was, "This is British justice." The small coroner's court at West minster was so crowded that Whitaker Wright, Jr., son of the dead man, had to stand up throughout the proceed ings. He and other witnesses in the main bore out the facts already ca bled. Neither the son nor the deceas ed's closest friends, so they testified' to day, ever heard Wright even intimate that he ever comtemplated suicide. His solicitor, George Lewis, Jr., said the deceased all along implicitly be lieved that he would be acquitted, or that, at the worst he only contempla ted a disagreement of the jury. Even after his sentence Wright showed only indignation. In talking with Mr. Lewis, Mr. Eyre, one of his sureties, and Mr. Waters, the accountant of the London Globe cor poration, Wright said: "I really think I am the most composed of you all." As regards an appeal, Wright said he would do exactly as he was advised. Asked if some one had not better tel ephone the verdict to Mrs. Wright, Wright said: "There is plenty of time for that." Taking out his watch and chain Wright handed them to Mr. Eyre, saTing. "I snail not have any use for this in that place," meaning the prison. "I give it to you. Eyre. Keep it for me."" This was all that occurred. After Wright had taken the poison, holding a glass in his hand and still sipping its contents, he said: "Waters, give me another cigar." Mr. Waters took up Wright's cigar case which was lying on a table, and Wright deliberately cut the end off a cigar and struck a match. Just as he was going to light the cigar Wright flung the match from him, sank back unconscious and died without uttering another word. The doctor who was called in to attend Wright said he had not detected any smell or sign indicat ing poison, but the. official analysist. Dr. Frederberger, who conducted the post mortem examination, testified that from every organ of the body exuded the peculiarly penetrating smell of prusslc acid and that there was not the slightest doubt that Wright's death was due to that poison, in its cyanide of potassium form. The deceased had not suffered from any other disease; there were no lesions of the brain and the heart was healthy, though twice the normal size. It transpired at the inquest that Wright was only searched after his death. A tabloid found in his pocket did not appear to be poisonous. The revolver was discovered by the police after the law court officials had prev iously searched Wright. The coroner commented on this and indicated that action probably would be taken by the higher authorities. Whitaker Wright's life reads like a romance with the beginning of it torn away and intermediate chapters omit ted. Where he was born, or just who he was, may always be a mystery. He is quoted as saying he was born in England and educated there. So far as can be ascertained no one knows any thing of his history beyond what he told of his own accord. In the world of money makers he had been known for a good many years, appearing at differ ent times in Australia, Canada, the United States, and in London. Money making by gambling and spec ulation was an instinct with him, and it is known that he made and lost millions during his career. He had prospected in Australia and America, and always showed a fondness for mining ventures and the promotion of enterprises of which mines were the basis. It was not until he ventured away from his famil iar field and sought to promote an un derground railway in London that he failed. The promoter spent his money freely and the millions he acquired did not al ways stick to his fingers. He hoarded nothing and had no investments of a substantial nature. During the high tide of his prosperity he built a palace in Surrey that cost more than a million dollars. It had huge artificial lakes and in one of them was a conservatory under the surface of the water. He put in marble foun tains, parts of which were so large the railroads could not carry them, and spe cial traction engines had to be secured to move them. The place at Lea Park was a grand affair, and while he was prosperous it required 500 servants and work people to keep the place in order. Nothing that luxury and lavish expenditure could suggest was omitted. Whitaker Wright leaves a wife and three children, a son just out of Eton and two' girls. They are said to be practically penniless. Beside his own death, which closed his strange career, one other death, that of Lord Dufferin, is charged to Whitaker Wright's schemes. How many others, ruined by investment in his bal loon enterprises, killed themselves or died never can be known. The affair which marked his down fall, ruined Lord Dufferin and smirched (Continued on Sixth Page.) LARSONLOSES IT. Topeka Butter Expert Gets Second Place in Contest. A. C. Tannebili Also of Topeka Win. FOR THE REST CHEESE. First Place Given to John Compton, of Carieton. State Meeting to Be Held at Parsons Next Year. By the small margin of a quarter of a point Lewis Larson, of Topeka, was beaten in the "home stretch" for the possession of the $75 silver cup offered to the Kansas butter maker who for three years in succession exhibits the highest scoring butter at the Kansas State Dairy association. Larson has won the cud in 1002 and 1903. Had he won this year he would have been the permanent owner. The scores were as follows: AC. Tannehill, Topeka 96 L. Larson, Topeka 96 J. Mayer, Topeka 96 R. O. Nally, Topeka 95 D. Morning, Parsons 94V& C. Mansfield, Topeka 93 D. S. Brandt, Dwight 92 i Kern Hurd, Hutchinson 91! W. H. Hammond, Great Bend 89 I Under the rules, a contestant must I win the cud three years in succession. I Larson is the only man so far who has succeeded in winning it more than once. Mr. Tannehill will hold the cup for a year, when he must again defend it against all comers. Larson gets $5 cash as a second prize. The judge of the butter contest was Prof. Oscar Erf, of the Agricultural college. The following were the awards on cheese: John Compton, Carieton, Kan 90 C. B. Merry. Nortonville 89 F. C. Exline, Kip 88 M. E. Straham, Melvern 86 S. L. McNay, Buckeye 84 Mark Compton, Potter 82 John Compton therefore got first prize of $10 and C. B. Merry got second of $5. In the station operators' cream con test, a good many entries were dis qualified for too large a per centage of butter fat. The winner of first prize was D. Morning of Parsons, with a score of 944, and the second went to F. Dawdy, of Topeka, whose score was 93. In the patrons hand separator cream contest, Frank Uhl of Gardner got first and J. L. WondbigJer of Labette sec ond. The scores went as follows: Frank Uhl, Gardner ...93 ...92 ...88 ...80 J. L. Wondbigler, Labette, John Litzke, Council Grove N. P. Stevens, Hutchinson AT PARSONS NEXT YEAR. It is probable that the next annual convention of the association will be held at Parsons in 1905. Parsons was the only city to extend a formal invi tation to the association. The invita tion was referred to the officers of the association for consideration. The following officers were elected for the ensuing year: President. E. H. Forney of Abilene; vice president, D. S. Brandt of Dwight; secretary, T. A. Borman of Topeka; treasurer, I. D. Graham of Topeka. The outgoing president is G. H. Littlefield of Parsons. Resolutions were adopted by the asso ciation endorsing very highly the "Mod ern Dairying" report of the Kansas state board of agriculture. ST. LOUIS RESOLUTIONS. Strong resolutions were adopted by the association today, calling upon the Kansas World's fair commissioners to give a bigger appropriation for the dairy exhibit at the fair. President Littlefield said in speaking of the situation: "Unless we can get more than $1,000, it seems hardly worth while for us to try to make an exhibit. It will take $500 to pay for our refrigerator space at the exposition. That will leave only $500 to pay the expense of handling the ex hibit. The buttermakers have agreed to donate the butter. We want to place a man there on the ground to look after the exhibit. A man whom we have in mind has offered to do this work for $75 a month and expenses, and we need to have him there. The exhibit will be changed every 30 days, and each time a new lot of butter is put in place it will be scored by the exposition judges. "We also want to have arrangements made for collecting the exhibits at some central point here in Kansas before they are sent to St. Louis, and having them carefully judged by competent men, so that only the very best specimens will be sent to St. Louis." The following are the resolutions adopted this morning, which were sent by wire to the Kansas commissioners in St. Louis who are in session today, and of which a copy was also sent to Governor W. J. Bailey: "Whereas, The dairy interests of Kansas represent an annual income to her citizens of more than nine million dollars and as these interests are grow ing at a very rapid rate and should be recognized by those in official capacity as they are already recognized by the citizens ol the state; and "Whereas. The dairy products of this state take rank among the highest in quality of any produced on this side of the Atlantic, and as the appropria tion of $175,000 made by the legislature for the purpose of exhibiting the re sources of the state at the St. Louis World's fair is sufficient if rightly used to show to the world something of the position Kansas really occupies among her sister states and to give just rec ognition to the dairy interests thereof; and "Whereas, The proposal of the Kan sas World's fair commissioners to ap propriate $900 out of a total of $175,000 for the making of a dairy exhibit at the World's fair is evidence that they fail to comprehend the magnitude and value of this great industry to our state; therefore, be it "Resolved, By the Kansas State Dairy association in seventeenth an nual session assembled that the Kan sas World's fair commissioners be earnestly requested to set aside not less than $5,000 to be used in making an exhibit of the dairy resources of Kansas in some measure commensurate with the facts as they exist. "Resolved. That the secretary of the Kansas State Dairy association be in structed to hand a copy of these reso lutions to Governor W. J. Bailey and to the Kansas World's fair commis sioners now in session at St. Louis." DUG UPJHE DEAD A Jlob Takes Possession of the City of Morocco. Makes an Attack on the Chris tian Cemetery. PARADED THE TOWN With Heads of the Dead Stuck on Poles. Looted Jewelry Shops, Robbing and Wounding Jews. Trouble Started Over Issue of Debased Coin. Tangier, Morocco, Jan. 28. Morocco City has been the scene of serious dis turbances in consequence of the at tempts to force the circulation of new unpopular copper coins, on which the government placed an artificial value and which it refused to receive in payment of taxes, "business was para lyzed, provisions became scarce and starvation was threatened. A mob therefore rose and first attacked the Christian cemetery lately given by the sultan to the foreign missions, burned down the gates, desecrated the graves, exhumed the bodies, cut off their heads and paraded the town with the heads stuck on poles. The rioters proceeded to the Jewish quarter with the object of destroying it, but they found the gates closed and strongly guarded. The Jews were panic stricken until they found that the protection of the auth orities was effective. The rabble sub sequently looted the jewelry shops, rob bing and wounding many Jews. The governor attempted to quell the dis turbance, but he was stoned, pursued and obliged to seek refuge in the pal ace. The authorities finally induced the rioters to withdraw on the promise of the temporary withdrawal of the ob noxious coinage. MRS. CLARK IS DEAD. Santa Fe Special Continnes Its Record Breaking Run. New York, Jan. 28. Mrs. Charles Walter Clark of San Mateo, Cal., died in this city last night. Mrs. Clark had been under medical treatment here for about six weeks, but was not consider ed to be critically ill until Monday when her sickness took a dangerous turn and her husband and other members of her family were notified to come. Charles W. Clark, who is the senator's eldest son, is On the way east from Arizona and is expected to reach this city Friday morning. Airs. M. L. Cunningham, Mrs. Clark's mother, will reach this city today and others of the family are on the way hither. The funeral will take place on Sunday either from the resi dence of Senator Clark or from St. Thomas church and the interment will be in Senator Clark's mausoleum in Woodlawn cemetery. Mrs. Clark was married June 30, 1896, at Butte, Mont. There has been no is sue of the union. If the special train chartered by Chas. W. Clark, son of Senator Clark of Mon tana, from the Santa Fe at Albu querque yesterday morning maintains the speed reached between Albuquerque and Topeka. it will break all previous records held by the Santa Fe and will reach Chicago several hours in advance of the time set by Santa Fe officials. Mr. Clark while at Phoenix. Ariz., was notified that his wife, who is in New York city, was critically ill and he immediately chartered a train upon the conditions that it would reach Chi cago at noon today, in lime to make connections with the Limited to New York. The train consists of engine, private car and coach and left Albu querque on its trip of 1,377 miles at 5:45 o'clock yesterday morning. Between the starting point and La Junta it broke all records, reaching La Junta, 347 miles from Albuquerque, at 2 p. m., S hours and 15 minutes after starting. The mountainous district is a great time-killer and it was expected that much better time would be made after reaching the Kansas prairies but just west of Newton an engine failed and the train was delayed for over an hour. It reached Newton at 10:45 o'clock last night and madetherun be tween Newton and Topeka in two hours and fifty minutes, reaching here at 1:55 this morning. The average speed between Albuquer que and Topeka was 42 3-5 miles an hour, which is much better time than was made by the Low special last August or the run of the Peacock special in 1900. The special has right of way over all trains and stops only for coal and water and to change engines at' the division points. Engines, steamed and ready for serv ice, were stationed at Osage City and Topeka. to be used in case of accident, but were not needed, and the train passed through Topeka at 1:55 this morning at the rate of 4$ miles an hour. At 8:35 this morning the special reached Fort Madison. TAFT ARRIVES. New Secretary of War Has Reached Washington. Washington, Jan. 28. W. H. Taft, the former governor general of the Phil ippines and new secretary of war, ar rived here over the Pennsylvania road. His train was the regular connection of the Chicago limited. He was enthus iastically welcomed by a large crowd at the station. Lieutenant General Adna R. Chaffee, chief of staff of the United States army; Assistant Secretary of War Oliver, and Colonel Clarence Ed wards, chief of the division of insular affairs, formally greeted the new head of the war department. Governor Taft was escorted down the long train shed by General Chaffee, and Assistant Secretary Oliver and as they reached the gates and passed through a lane formed there was a prolonged outburst of cheers which was. repeated vocifer ously by the crowd gathered outside. Governor Taft, with General Chaffee, and Colonel Edwards, both in full uni form entered one carriage and General Oliver followed in another and led by Troop E, Fifteenth cavalry, from Fort Myer, which had been drawn up in the plaza in front of the station, they were rapidly driven to the war depart ment where Secretary Root formally welcomed his successor. From there, the new secretary was driven to the Arlington hotel, where apartments had been reserved for him. Governor Taft looked the picture of health. He said he had had a splendid trip, and that he was in excellent health. Mrs. Taft and their children did not acccpany the governor but will remain in California for an indefinite time. BURTON G1VESB0ND. His Case Is Set- for Trial on Monday, March 7. St. Louis, Jan. 28. U. S. Senator J. R. Burton of Kansas was admitted to $5,000 bail late Wednesday afternoon, to answer in the United States circuit court March 7 for trial on the indict ment charging him with accepting money for the alleged use of his in fluence with the postal authorities to prevent the issuance of a fraud order against the Rialto Grain and Securities company. When arraigned before Judge Adams he pleaded not guilty to the charge. His sureties are Ernest H. Kaster, George W. Adams and Herbert A. Vrooman. Arthur F. Mclntire, who is under arrest on a charge of using the mails in a scheme to defraud his patrons while manager of the Merchants' Bro kerage and Commission company, has offered to be a witness for the prosecu tion against Senator J. R. Burton of Kansas, charged with accepting money for representing the Rialto Grain and Securities company before the post office department. Burton's brother was formerly in the employ of the Merchants' Brokerage and Commission company in the ca pacity of bookkeeper. It is said that Mclntire became alarmed when the government officials began to investi gate the get-rich-quick concerns, lest he also should become involved. It is claimed that Mr. Burton, the bock keeper, suggested that "J. R.." mean ing Senator Burton, could fix it all right for $250. Mclntire is said to have refused to consider the matter at the time, but some days afterward gave in structions to his subordinates to go ahead and have the matter "fixed. The Merchants' Brokerage and Com mission company afterward got into trouble. The first proceeding against it was bv William Wilmerton. who brought suit in the United States dis trict court to recover $30,000 that he is alleged to have lost in dealings with the company. When the United States irarshal took charge of the effects of the company, the books showed, it is alleged, that among the disbursements was an item of $250 paid to J. R. Bur ton for attorney's fees,. United States District Attorney Dyer has been consulting with Mclntire rel ative to testifying against Burton. Mc lntire was arrested in Chicago about ten days ago and brought back to this Senator Burton asked the court for an early trial. United States District Attorney Dyer stated that an early tria! was satisfactory to the govern ment. Judge Adams said that the next term of court would begin in May, but later qualified this by adding that he may be able to try the case early in March. Senator Burton was then ordered to appear in court on Monday, March 7. When asked whether he had anything to say in regard to the case, Senator Burton stated that he had retained Judge Krum and Mr. Bothwell as coun sel and that all statements would be made by them. Further than to say that their client was ready for an early trial counsel refused to discuss the case. OVER $600 PER MEMBER What the Kelly Senate Spent for Employes. One of the things on which the boss buster movement Is based is that the house in the last legislature had an army of employes. It is conceded by everybody that the employe business was greatly overdone last winter. In fact, the State Journal was the first paper to wage war upon the legislature for its great number of employes. But the boss buster leaders never say anything about the senate, which was controlled by the faction which is lined up with them. T. T. Kelly had a far tighter rein over the senate than Gov ernor Bailey had over the house. The senate never failed to do just what Kelly wanted done, and the Kelly senators, who were in the majority in the senate, .are now all lined up with the Hoch movement. The senate was not only far more profligate in its appropriations than the house, as has been repeatedly pointed out, but it had far more employes in proportion to the number of members than the house. The books in the state auditor's office show that the house, with 125 members. spent $38,658 for employes, or $309.30 per member, while the senate, with 40 members, spent $25,582 for employes, or $639.55 per member. Not only did the senate have a mul titude of doorkeepers, sergeants-at-arms, janitors and clerks, but each sen ator had a personal clerk of his own. The senate spent $639.55 per member for employes, while the house spent $309.30. Both were outrageously wrong, as the State Journal declared at the time, but not a single boss buster senator or mem ber of the house protested against it. Instead they reaped the benefits of the employe graft wherever possible. Now they are telling the people that Gover nor Bailey is to blame for it, and the farmer who paid his taxes last month and paid more than he did the year be fore was led to believe that Governor Bailey was responsible for it because of the large number of employes the house had last winter! Temperatures of Large Cities. Chicago. Jan. 28. 7 a. m. tempera tures: New York 14: Boston 8; Phila delphia 18; Washington 18; Chicago 8; Minneapolis 12 below; Cincinnati 14; St. Louis 16. Prominent Wichita Kan Dead. Wichita, Kas.. Jan. 28. H. H. Myers, aged 66 vears. died at his home in this city after a lingering illness. He had been in business in .Wichita for six teen years. HE LEDJHE BOLT. Walker-Curtis Forces at Holton Follow a Democrat. At Least James II. Lowell Said He Was Not Long Ago. ASHBAUGH TALKED OF. May Be Candidate for Railroad Commissioner. Mankato Monitor Corrects False Report from Jewell. The Walker-Curtis forces In Jackson county have been making a noise about Democrats voting for Broderick and Thompson in the recent primaries. It seems to be a sort of a "stop thief cry, for the Thompson-Broderick people say it is certain that Democrats not only voted (or the Curtis-Walker delegates, but there were Democrats among the Curtis-Walker delegates. The floor manager of the Curtis Walker people in the county convention before it bolted was a lifelong Demo crat. He was Judge James H. Lowell. Stowed away in a letter file left in the governor s office by Governor Stanley are the applications for places on the board cf railroad commissioners, and among them is the application of James H. Lowell of Holton for appointment as the Democratic member of the board. Lowell got some of the leading Repub licans of the First district to endorse him as a Democrat. One of his endorse ments begins as follows: "Judge James H. Lowell cf Holton Is proposed for the appointment as the Democratic member on the board of railroad commissioners." Another one says: "Judge James H. Lowell of Holton desires the appoint ment as a member of the board of rail way commissioners. Mr. Lowell is a strong, able lawyer, and is, and has been, a consistent Democrat.' He was one of the Palmer electors in 1896." Still another endorsement is as fol lows: "Judge Lowell Is one of the few stalwart Democrats who have never bowed the knee to the Baal of Pop ulism." And now the men who followed the lead of Judge Lowell in Jackson county are accusing their opponents in the Re publican party of using Democrats to help them! S. S. Ashbaugh of Wichita, who has been active in some of the most im portant cases that have been up before the board of railroad commissioners, is now talked of for-a place on the board. The Wichita Eagle says: "There was talk in political circles yesterday of Judge S. S. Ashbaufch's becoming a iandidate for railroad com missioner. His fitness for the position probably started the talk. He has been a prime mover in the Wichita case for better freight rates, and he, together with the other counsel, has carried some of these cases to a successful end and gained many concessions for the wholesale and other interests. His connection with the work has made him capable of judging of the fairnesr of rates and the methods by which the railroads may be obliged to correct discriminate rates, this would give Wichita and the section about her rep resentation on the state board, to which she is justly entitled as the trade cen ter of the southwest." Mankato Monitor: A false telegraphic report was sent out from this county to the effect that a resolution favoring Roosevelt, Reeder and Bailey was voted down "three to one" by the county cen tral ommittee. We happened to be present at that meeting, and are pre pared to say that the report was false. The resolution was voted down, but the majority was so slight that it took a keen ear to discern which side was in the majority, and a division was not celled. The reason it was voted down was not because the committee was opposed to Bailey, but because after discussing the matter It was thought best not to act for the voters of the several townships. And some voted against it because they were opnosed to Reeder. The facts are that Bailey had a majority of three in that com mittee. Those kind of misrepresenta tions sent out to the daily aners are made for the excress purpose of creat ing a stampede to Hoch, but when the votes are counted it may result e good deal like Jackson and Pratt counties be overwhelmingly for Bailey. Does the reader notice that the Dick inson county Republican convention yesterday endorsed Hoch and Burton. Now suppose it had endorsed Bailey and Burton! SEIZE THE ARMORY. Colorado Militiamen Try to Col lect Pay by Force. Pueblo, Colo.. Jan. 28. Over forty members of company G, Colorado Na tional Guard, have taken possession cf the armory building and contents and are holding it for salary said to amount to over $5,000 due them for service in the Cripple Creek strike. What action will be taken by the authorities has not yet been determined. The statement of some of the sol diers that they have been turned out of the armory and allowed to starve, after suffering the loss of their cloth ing bv theft while away, is denied by Adjutant C. B. Carlisle of the Second Colorado, and Col. Lew Barnum, of the same regiment, who stated that they have furnished the returned militia men ample funds for their board while waiting for their pay. Wichita Kan Acquitted. Wichita, Kas., Jan. 28. Ralph Bain was acquitted, the jury reporting late Wednesday,, after being out since 1:45 o'clock Tuesday afternoon. The result shows that the plea of self-defense was accepted, as the defendant did not deny that he shot William Flynn on the morning of September 15. For the first time in court he showed the feeling that was his, and tears rolled down his cheeks as he shook the hands of t'u Jurors. Weather Indications. Chicago. Jan. 28. Forecast for Kan sas: Generally fair tonight and Fri day; warmer Friday and in west por tions tonight; southerly winds.

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TOPEKA STATE JOTJRNAI THURSDAY EVENING, JANUARY 28, 1904. KAHSASNEWS. Fort Scott Man Explains His Pension Increase. John A. Reed Saved Government About Si 00,000. IN Ax INDIAN RAID. Ban ttauntlet Under Fire From Sarage Ited 31en. Happening in the Short Grass Land Years Ago. Fort Scott, Jan. 2S. The Monitor cays: Fort Scott, Kan., Jan. 25, 'Oi. Editor of Fort Scott Monitor. Sir: As I have been asked a number f times since my pension bill was al lowed why I was allowed J30 a month while other men in my condition were only drawing $24 to $30, in answer to which I submit to you the following: On January 17, 1864, I was stationed with my company at Fort Lamed, Kan. then known as the plains of western Kansas. As that country was infested with Indians, we were sent there to do post and escort duty. At the time mentioned there were at the fort com pany H, Twelfth Kansas infantry, the First Colorado battery, the left sec tion of the Ninth Wisconsin battery and a part of the First Colorado cav alry. There were several thousand In dians camped at different places within a few miles of the fort. They had been In a threatening attitude for several months. On the 17th of July, 1864, at about noon, there were between 2, 00 and 3,000 around the fort. Without a moment's notice they beean firing at us. At the same time they stampeded ail of the horses belonging at the fort except those belonging to the Ninth Wisconsin battery. Their horses ran to the corral when the stampede began. After a sharp fight the Indians were driven back. Fort Larned was the end rf the Leavenworth stage route; also the Kansas City, stage line had a sta tion there. That line ran on through to the Pacific coast. The stage from Leavenworth was due on the 18th at 9 a. m., and Paymaster Major Hunt of the regular army was expected on that stage with money to pay all the troops in the west, which would take about 100,000. Fort Zarah, on Walnut creek, east from Larned, was 35 miles. A camp of perhaps 2,000 Indians was within a half mile of the road, 25 miles from larned. Another large camp of Indians was about five miles below Lamed, on Pawnee creek, on which the fort was located. The road running east passed within about two miles of this camp, between the fort and that camp was a high point, then called Lookout, and since the country has become settled known as Potter's Point. On that was an Indian spy and the Indians could be seen in nearly every direction from the fort. Captain J. W. Parmeter, now of Ola the, Kan., was in command. He called lor a volunteer to go to Fort Zarah to save the paymaster and the mail from falling into the hands of the Indians that night. No one semed to be willing to make the run. I was working in post bakery at the time. Our orderly sergeant, Anthony Wiley, now of Spring Hill, Kan., said to Captain Parmeter that if there was a man in the fort that would take the chance It was John Reed, so the captain sent for me, told me what he wanted. I told him I had never seen a place too dangerous for me to try to go. We all knew that I must pass the large Indian camp before they got word of the outbreak or I would anever get by. I told Lieutenant Crocker that if he could have a certain horse ready in fifteen minutes I would try it. At 3 p. m., with the mercury at 104, I started. As soon as I left the fort the spy on Lookout point started for their camp. I reached the top of the ridge, extending north from the high point. There in plain view were at least 100 Indian warriors, running to the road to cut me off. I saw that by keeping up a good speed I could get past ahead of them, so in I went. Then the race and firing began in earnest and fOF fifteen miles, to Pawnee Rock, with the bullets knocking up the dust and sand all around me. It was simply a test of horseflesh. At Pawnee Rock they gave up the race. Turning on my horse I waved my hat and hallooed as loud as I could. Get My Book, If Sick. Don't Send a Penny. Don't send a penny. Just wait till you see what I can do. Ijet me take the risk. Let me prove up first what Dr. Snoop's Restorative can do. The Restorative will gain your friendship, your indosement, it' you test it. And for a whole month you can use it without the slightest risk. I will tell you of a druggist near you who will furnish six bottles of Dr. Shoop's Restorative A Month on Trial. I will absolutely stand all the cost if it fails. If you say: "It did not help me." that ends it as far as cost to you is con cerned. Do you understand me? I am telling it as plainly, as clearly as I can. I want you to know absolutely and with out doubt that this offer is made on honor. I have the prescription that cures. My only problem is to convinci you that Dr. Shoop's Restorative will cure is an uncommon remedy. A com mon remedy could not stand a test like this. It would bankrupt the physician making the offer. And I am succeeding everywhere and here is the secret of my success. I found invariably that where there was a weakness, the inside nerves were weak. Where there was a lack of vitality, the vital nerves lacked power. Where weak organs were found, I always found weak nerves. Not the nerves com monly thought of but the vital organs' nerves. The inside the invisible nerves. This was a revelation. Then my real success began. Then I combined ingre dients that would strengthen, that would ltalize, these nerves. That prescription I called a restorative. It is known the world over now as Dr. Shoop's Restora tive. Thousands are accepting my offer and only one in each 40 writes me that my remedy failed. Just think of it S9 out of 40 get well, and these are difficult cases, too. And the fortieth has noth ing to pay. That is a record I am proua of. It is wrong to stay sick when a chance like this is open. If well, you should tell others who are sick, of my offer. Don't let a sick friend stay sick because he knows not of my offer. Teil him. Get my book for him. Do your duty. You may be sick yourself, some time. Sick people need help. They ap preciate sympathy and aid. Tell me of some sick friend. Let me cure him. Then he will show his gratitude to both of us. Your reward will be his gratitude. Send for the book now. Do not delay. Simply state Book 1 on Dyspepsia, which book you Book 2 on the Heart, want and ad- Book 3 on the Kidneys, dress Dr. Shoop, Book 4 for Women. Box 8729, Ra- Book 5 for Men (scaled) cine. Wis. Book 6 on Rheumatism. Mild cases, not chronic, are often cured With one or two bottles. At druggists. They answered it. Then the large camp was still ten miles ahead. Soon the camp came in sight. Imagine, if you can, my feelings as I approached that camp. As I passed hundreds of them stood looking at me, bflt did me no harm. Then I knew that if those that were following me got to the camp in time to get fresh horses, they could catch me before I could reach the fort, ten miles further on. So I dared not slacken my pace. At 5:15 p. m. I hand ed my dispatches to Captain Dunlap, H company, Fifteenth Kansas covalry, at Fort Zarah. That night the stage from Leaven worth came in with Paymaster Hunt. The next morning the Indians made a dash for our horses, which were on herd near the fort, but being on watch for them wa saved the horses. They then turned on. a wagon train about a mile from the little fort, killed ten men and scalped two boys they left for dead. We drove the Indians away and got the boys. They got well. That night the Kansas City stage came in, and at 3 a. m. on the inth we were mounted ready to start for Fort Larned. An advance guard was called for. None responded. Captain Dunlap asked me if I would take the advance, as his men were not acquainted with Indian warfare or the country. I asked a man standing by if he would stay with me if we ran into the In dians. He said he would stay as long as I could, so we two rode across the bridge into the woods, so dense we could see nothing, and took the ad vance. We reached Pawnee creek, nearly two miles from Fort Larned, at noon and found the bridge burned over which I crossed when I first startod. Then there were no beef cattle on the range, as there should have been. I rode back to the command, told Cao tain Dunlap and Major Hunt, and sug gested that I would take the bank of the creek, have the man who was with me keep two hundred yards from me, and for him to keen the command about a quarter of a mile from us un til we reached the fort, as there was no crossing only at the fort. As the tim ber hid the fort from us, we could not tell who had possession, the Indians or our men. And in that manner we marched to the fort. When I rode into the fort the boys took me off my horse, carried me on their shoulders from one barracks to another, singing "We will .ttaiiy jrtound the Flag, Boys," etc. HER MARRIAGE OPPOSED. Young Girl Took Poison and Ended Her Troubles. Lawrence, Jan. 28. Because her par ents would not allow her to marry the man of her choice, Jennie Criss, the 16-year-old daughter of a farmer living near Lecompton, committed suicide by taking strychnine. The man to whom the girl was engaged was 38 years old and her parents did not approve of the marriage largely on account of the dif ference in ages. The opposition on the part of the parents was not known un til yesterday for the proposed marriage had been kept secret until that time. When Miss Criss announced her in tention to be married her parents not only prote&ted but refused to allow the marriage certificate to be issued. This so humiliated the girl that she took strychnine which resulted in her death in a few hours. WORK. AT FORT RILEY. Several Large Buildings Will Be Built in the Spring. Fort Riley, Jan. 28. The constructing quartermaster at the post. Captain Geo. O. Cress, will advertise within the next ten days for bids on the construction of an ordnance storehouse, band bar racks, farrier shop, guardhouse and al terations and repairs to five artillery stables. The guardhouse will be ISO by 130 feet and will be the most complete structure of its kind in the service. The farrier shop will have accommodations for 12 blacksmiths and will be for the use of the farriers' and horseshoers' school. Bids will also be asked for constructing wall lockers for three re modeled artillery barracks and for the laying of cement and brick sidewalks. This work will begin in the early spring. Was a Smooth Scheme. Some time ago the Register reprinted a story from a Chanute paper to the effect that Mrs. Ferree of that place had taken part in a play given there. Local interest in the fact grew out of her hav ing brought her two children to Iola and placed them in the Orphanage stating at the time that she was sure to die soon. When the Register printed the etory it was yanked over the coals by the local Orphanage managers and received a hot letter from the aforesaid Mrs. Ferree. She reiterated her deter mination to die. And now she Is go ing to get married! O, false, fickle woman! Her children have been found good homes in this county and will doubtless be left where they are. Iola Register. Family Live in a Coal House. In poor health, the mother of three children, small children, without means and barely enough fuel to keep them warm is the condition of a poor woman who lives on Scott avenue on the banks of Buck run. The woman is Mrs. T. E. Greenwell and she and her little flock live in a coal house. This is the place they call home. It isn't much but It is the only place they have. The woman called upon Mayor Congdon this morn ing and reported a case of destitution and desertion. She stated that her hus band, who is blind, and hardly able to provide for himself, left her some time ago and since then she has not learned where he is. Fort Scott Republican. Y. M. C. A. Association. Newton, Kan., Jan. 28. The twenty second annual state convention of the Young Men's Christian association will be held in Newton this week, beginning Thursday evening and continuing over Sunday. It has been three years since the convention was held in this section of the state, not since 1900, when it was held in this city with about 250 dele gates, and this year's attendance is ex pected to exceed that by at least one hunderd. The railroads offer a rate of one fare and a third, good returning until February 3. Representation is not limited, but entertainment will be pro vided by the Newton association for ten delegates from each association. New Rural Routes. Washington. Jan. 2S. These Kansas ru ral routes will be established March 1: Abilene, Dickinson county, one addition al route: area covered, 24 square miles; population, 4"0. Cleburne, Riley county, one route; area covered, 30 square miles; population, 444. Hunter, Mitchell county, one route; nrea covered. S3 square miles; population, 520. "Udell, Cowley county, one additional: area covered, 27 square miles; population, 420. Vesper. Lincoln county, two routes: nrea covered, 58 square miles; population, 924. Cottonwood Falls' New Postmaster Washington. Jan. 28. June B. Smith has been nominated postmaster at Cot tonwood Falls, Kan. William Norton is the present postmaster. Mr. Smith is a leading merchant of the town. A Fort Riley Wedding. Fort Riley, Kan., Jan. 28. Captain Alex ander Macomb Miller, jr., United States army, and Miss Elizabeth Chew were married at noon Wednesday in the chaoel 1 here by Bishop Milispaugh of Topeka. A wedding breakfast was served at the quarters of Major W. H. Coffin, artillery corps, who gave the bride away. After a wedding tour in the east the couple will reside at Fort Walia Walla, Wash. .where the groom is stationed as a member of the Ninth cavalry. Miss Chew is a daugh ter of the late Lieutenant Commander Chew. T'nited States navy. The groom's tth- Pol. Alpxnrlor Macomb Miller, is an officer of the engineer corps with sta-i-.i cviiny iienusiUiirteriS m Washington. Modern Woodmen at Wichita. Wichita. Kan., Jan. 2S. Hundreds of Modern Woodmen of America are in Wichita today from all over Kansas and Oklahoma in attendance at a log rolling. The head consul, A. R. Talbot, is the guest of honor. He was met at the de pot by degree teams from this and sur rounding cities in full uniform and escort ed to tiie Toler auditorium. Speeches were made. A big class of candidates was given the degree of Woodcraft last night. Unknown Prisoner Dead. Independence. Kan., Jan. 2S. An un known man died in the city prison last night and nothing can be learned of his Identity. About a week ago he applied for a place to sleep and was taken ill that night. Since then he has been cared for by the city physician, but was not considered dangerous. He positively re fused to give his name or state where he was from. Beaton to Slake Theater Sale. Atchison, Kan., Jan. 28. The city coun cil, at a meeting last night, recommend ed that the Atchison theater be entirely rewired; that an asbestos curtain be put in and that a fire wall be constructed under the stage. The owner of the thea ter is ex-Representative John Seaton, who is willing to do anything that will contribute to the safety of theatergoers. Western Rural Carriers Washington. Jan. 28. These rural car riers have been appointed: Kansas Goff, regular, George E. McKibben; substitute, James B. Camp. Oklahoma Lamont, reg ular, Winfield A. Aikens, Henry M. Gil demeister; substitute, Ann Aikens, J. A. Piburn. Drug Store Change at Lincoln. Lincoln, Kan., Jan. 28. William Wal ker, jr., one of the best known politicians the Pvmocrats have in the short grass country, has bought out the Acliterburg drug store. Walker is known all over Kansas as "Billy Walker" and the boys in Lincoln are glad to welcome him here. KEYES GOING HOME To Become President of the Colom bian Republic. Washington, D. C, Jan. 2S. Information reached here today from New York that General Rafael Reyes, the Colombian en voy, will sail from that city on Saturday next on the steamer Valencia for Barran quilla, whence he will proceed immediate ly to Bogota. Several Colombians who came to Wash ington to assist him will return to Co lombia with him, including General Ospi na and General Caoallero. Since General Reyes departure from Washington he has had no communication with the state de partment. The most interesting piece of news which will be communicated Mr. Reyes on his arrival at Barrannuilla is his expected election to the presidency of Co lombia. The presidential electors will meet In tneir respective departments on February 2 for that purpose Although some opposition to Gen. Reyes has de veloped no doubt exists among the diplo mats in Washington as to the outcome. the return ot General tteyes to Co lombia, it is felt here, will have a bene ficial effect in restraining the Jingo ele ment, who still resent the action of the United Slates on the Panama question. THEIR BOAT UPSET. Six Indians and $1,200 Gold Lost in Colorado River. Los Angeles, Cal.. Jan. 2S. A special to the Express from Beals, Cal., says: Six Indians and about $1,200 in gold were lost by upsetting a boat on the Colorado river near the Indian reservation a few days ago. James Cundiff and Frederick Longmeyer, prospectors, witnessed the accident and managed to save one of the occupants of the boat. The surviving In dian said he and his companions had been working in the placer fields on the Arizona side and were on their way to Needles to get provisions. The boat was caught In a whirlpool and before the men who were propelling it could get the craft under control it was upset by the others, who became panic-stricken. Two Convicted of Murder. Denver, Col., Jan. 28. Charles O. Pe ters and Newton Andrews have been found guilty of murder in the first de gree by a iury which fixed their punish ment at hanging. The crime for which they are convicted is the killing of Mrs. Amanda Youngblood while they, with a companion. Fred Arnold, were attempt ing to rob the little grocery store of Xhomas loungoiooa. Domestic Troubles. It is exceptional to find a family where there are no domestic ruptures occasion ally, but those can be lessened by having Dr. King's New Life Pills around. Much trouble they save by tneir great work in stomacn ana liver trouoies. l ney not "n ly relieve you, but cure. 26c at Arnoid Drug Co., b21 JNortn Jtiansas ave. Or. Galdvoli's (LAXATIVE) breaks up a Cold, cures a Cough, allays Fever, quiets inflammation of the head. throat and chest just as certainly as Constipation, Indigestion, Sick Hcadacha End Stomach Trouble. No poisonous or nauseating' drugs; a pleasant, perfect remedy, at SCc and $1.00 at your druggist's. PEPSIN SYRUP COMMIT, nontlce'Io, i::inois. GATLIN DRUG CO. DISTRIBUTORS Topeka, Kansas. SPORTINGNEWS. JTChesney Is Rated Second In Brighton Handicap. The Famous Water Boy Given the Top Weight. HERMIS COMES THIRD. Dick Welles Not Regarded as a Stayer by Many. Sarable and Golden Maxim Are Treated Liberally. New York, Jan. 28. Water Boy is given the place of honor in the Bright on handicap. He has been assigned 129 pounds by Mr. Vosburgh, the official handicapper. McChesney receives one pound from the black son of Water cress and Hermis gets three pounds. Of the 4-year-olds Africander, win ner of the Belmont, Advance, Realiza tion and Saratoga cup, is top weight, the handicapper giving Irish Lad one pound less. Dick Welles is not regarded as a stayer by many, hence the fact that he receives but two pounds from African der makes it appear that the handicap per thinks the majority are wrong. That the September stakes in which The Picket defeated Africander so eas ily last fall was not a true test of the latter's form is shown by the fact that he is in receipt of seven pounds froia the son of Star Ruby. Savable and Golden Maxim are each treated liberal ly, taking the Realization of last year as a line, for while Africander won that great race, he did not have seven pounds in hand, many think. The weights: Water Boy McChesney Hermis Africander Irish Lad 129 citv iianK 12s Delhi 100 ....12tij Onatas Mu 125- Dick Bernard 99 ....124: South Trinble 99 Dick Welles 123, Stolen Moments.. Advance Guard. Acioeii Maj. Daingerfieldll!j Stalwart The Picket 118! Toboggan Savable llsi Slave Golden Maxim ...117 Damon Gunfire 117 Montreson Charles Elwood.. .1171 Ormonde's Right. Hurstbourne 116 Proofreader 98 Runnels 115; Salvatelle 97 Aceful Un, Dolly Spanker 97 Lord of the Valell5 Mabon 97 Santon H5 Ort Wells 95 Mlzzen In, iitseful 96 Whorler 113- Wotan Pti Persistence 112 Old Stone 96 Reliable llli Orthodox 96 Eugenia Burch.. .110; Cannon Ball 95 Grand Otera 110! Gold Saint 95 Francesco 110 Palmbearer 95 Igniter HOi Robin Hood 95 Roehampton liv Jocund 95 Highball 1 Tippecanoe 95 High Chancellor. .107 Raglan 94 Injunction lo7 Gettysburg 94 River Pirate 107j Alliance 94 Hunter Raine Wtti Knight Errant 93 Hamburg Bella ..105) James V 93 Grey Friar 104 Lord Badge !2 Capt. Buckle 104 1 Ostricn 92 Broomstick 104; Colonsay 62 Stamping Gr'nd..l03 St Valentine 92 Bonnibert 1031 Careless 90 Pulsus Vtt Adios 88 Leonidas H2 Moharib 88 Glen Water 102; Pliaon SS Reservation V'l Phaser 86 Mons. Beaucalre.lOOl O'BRIEN-RYAN BOUT. Philadelphia Jack Stayed the Limit Last Night. Philadelphia, Jan. 28. Jack O'Brien and Tommy Ryan fought one of the fastest six-round bouts ever seen in this city iast night, and the Philadel phian had a slight advantage. O'Brien clearly outfought Ryan in the first four lounds and in the fifth drornen hi ii with a hard blow to the jaw. Ryan took the count of eight and came up groggy. He saved himself by clinching until he iied regained his bearings. A moment later Ryan drove a vicious left tc OTriei.'t; stomach which sent the PhiladelDluan to his knees. Ryan seemed to regain his wind as the round progressed end landed repeatedly on O'Biien's sic -ach with vicious lefts It was only the gong that saved C'Brien from being knocked out. In the sixth round honors were about even, both men having received severe punishment. When the gong sounded ending the fight both men were in very bad shaDe. Near the close of the fifth round, while O'Brien was on the floor one of his seconds threw a sponge full of water on him. Many persons were of the opinion that this ended the fight, but the referee said no. Notwithstanding that the authorities permit only six-round bouts in this city the f.ght between Ryan and O'Brien created more interest in pugilistic circles than any similar event held here for several years. For three years the two fighters have been endeavoring to arrange a battle, in order to decide who was entitled to the middleweight championship, but some unforeseen hitch usually terminated the negotia tions until the present match was arranged in Chicago three weeks ago. The men airreed to meet here in a six-round bout for a $5,000 purse, sclit equally, and under the laws governing boxing in Philadelphia no decision can be given. Under these conditions, how ever, each man was as careful and conscientious with his training as if he was going twenty rounds to a decision for the championship. O'Brien established training quarters at Tumbling Run park, near Pottsville, Pa., and remained in that mountainous region until yesterday afternoon, whn he came here and went at once to the home of his parents, where he remained until shortlv after 8 o'clock, when he left for the ringside Ryan, accompanied by Hugo Kelly, reached this city yesterday afternoon and after registering at a hotel went to a local gymnasium and put in half an hour punching the bag. He then rested until the hour of the fight. The National Athletic club was taxed to its limit long before the hour set for the main event to take place. O'Brien and Ryan were weighed in at 6 o'clock. The beam was placed at 158 pounds, but neither man budged it. O'Brien came into the ring at 10:17, ac companied by his seconds. He was given a tremendous ovation. Ryan came into the ring at 10:21. He also was given a great reception. Both men were in the pink of condition. In O'Brien's corner were "Kid" Mc Coy, Joe Hagen and Billy McLarney, while Hugo Kelly, "Spike" Sullivan, Frank Barthey and S. Ferrettl attended to Ryan. Lew Durlacher was the time keeper. It was 10:25 when Referee Crowhurst called the men to the center of the ring for instructions. A moment later the gong sounded and the battle was on. Round 1 O'Brien led for face and miss. He then put left to Ryan's nose, Ryan backing away. O'Brien land ed a light right over the heart. O'Brien landed a light left on Ryan's head and repeated it again a moment later. The men then rushed to a clinch. O'Brien landed a hard uppercut on Ryan's chin and landed a left hook on the jaw not a moment later. He then drove another left to Ryan's face without an exchange. Ryan had not led once. O'Brien forced Ryan around the ring and his footwork seemed to mystify Ryan. The men were clinched at the bell. This was clearly O'Brien'B round. Round 2 Ryan rushed and landed a left hook oi, O'Brien's jaw. O'Brien then drove a hard right to Ryan's stom ach. The footwork of the men was marvelous. O'Brien rushed Ryan and Ryan slipped and fell, but was up in a moment. O'Brien rushed Ryan into a neutral corner and sent a left straight to the nose. Ryan led with left but fell short and 0'Bnn drove a hard left to face. O'Brien landed a left straight on the nose and got away without return. O'Brien landed a right hook on the chin and Ryan landed a light right on Jack's body. O'Brien then cut Ryan's left eye with a right drive and got away with out a return. It was first blood for O'Brien. The men rushed to a clinch as the gong sounded. Again this was clearly O'Brien's round. Round 3 O'Brien sent a straight left to Ryan's face and repeated again a second later. Ryan was swinging wildly. O'Brien missed left uppercut and the men clinched. O'Brien upper cut with his lift as the men came to gether. O'Brien landed a straight left to the jaw and repeated the same blow, driving Ryan's head back. Ryan broke repeatedly to get away from O'Brien's straight lefts. O'Brien drove Ryan's head back with a hard right and the latter landed a hard left on O'Brien's stomach. The men rushed to a clinch. O'Brien drove his left into Ryan's nose and the latter clinched. The men were fighting at a terrific pace. Ryan did not show his clever work which he had shown in previous battles. Round 4 The men rushed to a clinch. Ryan landed a left on O'Brien's stomach and the men again clinched. O'Brien landed a light right to Ryan's jaw and then sent his left to Ryan's nose. As Ryan closed in on O'Brien he drove a hard right to the stomach. Ryan hit in the clinches and was warn ed. O'Brien sent a stiff left to Ryan's face and repeated it with a right hook, getting away without a return. Jack again sent a hard left to Ryan's nose and the latter seemed bewildered. O'Brien uppercut Ryan and then sent a rigbt to Ryan's jaw, again causing the blood to flow. O'Brien landed a hard right on Ryan's stomach and then ..10O;sent a straight right to the jaw. He louowea tnis witn a siraigm. leit to me nose as the gong sounded. This was O'Brien's round and he was clearly outfighting Ryan. O'Brien was setting a terrific pace which Ryan could not maintain. Round 5 The men came to a clinch, without damage. O'Brien landed a right on stomach and another hard uppercut in the same place. He then drove a straight left to the nose and a right to the wind. Ryan landed a light left on the stomach and the men came to a clinch. O'Brien landed and Ryan went down from a right uppercut. He took the count of eight. Ryan was groggy. Ryan was holding on. He was almost out. Ryan landed a hard right on O'Brien's stomach, which did a lot of damage. O'Brien was holding on when the gong rang and it saved him from being knocked out. The blow showed on his stomach, where hard right and left drives landed. He was in severe pain. Round 6 Both men came to the cen ter slowly. Ryan landed a left on O'Brien's face and then sent a right to the stomach, but failed to land. The men rushed to a clinch. O'Brien up percut with a right and then landed a left to the nose. O'Brien landed a right straight to the jaw and Ryan clinched. O'Brien landed a hard upper cut and then broke ground. Ryan land ed a left on O'Brien's wind and the lat ter landed a straight right on the jaw. O'Brien uppercut with a right and then landed with a right on Ryan's jaw. Both were fighting hard. O'Brien drove right to the jaw and Ryan put left to the stomach. O'Brien missed a left and the men clinched. Ryan led for the stomach, but missed and the gong ended the battle. Cossiboine la Badger Ball Coach. Madison, "Wis., Jan. 2S. The athletic board of the University of Wisconsin has elected Howard Cossiboine of this city as baseball coach for the coming season. The salary Is $400. Cossiboine is a professional and has played on teams in Wisconsin and Michigan and in the Three I league. There were seven candidates for the position. Ac tive baseball practice will begin in a few da vs. Tom Jenkins Defeated. Bellingham, Wash.. Jan. 28. Frank A. Gotch, of Humboldt, Iowa, better known as the "Iowa Cyclone." won the wrestling match with Tom Jenkins, of Cleveland, Ohio, for the ehamcionship of the world here last night. Chinaman Whips Pugilist. Chicago, Jan. 28. "Shorty" Ahearn a pugilist, was knocked out in one round last evening in an impromptu bnttle pulled off in the chop suey foun dry of Sing Wing. Later on "Shorty was removed to the county hospital for repairs, liarly in the evening Ahearn Badly Swollen, Could Scarcely WalK. Smoked to Excess Heart Affected. Dr. Miles Heart Cure and Nervine Cured Me. 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I bought three bottles of each and when they were gone the aggravating symptoms had disappeared, but to make a sure thing of it 1 bought two more bottles of Nervine and am today perfectly welL I have used the Dr. Miles Anti-Pain Pills and consider all of Dr. Miies' medicines the very best of househoid remedies and wish that every sufferer might learn of their value." J. M. Dutv, Custodian High School Bldg, Bakersheld, CaL All druggists sell and guarantee first bot tle Dr. Mues' Remedies. Send for free book on Nervous and Heart Diseases. Address Dr. Miles' Medical Co, Elkhart, Ind, DR. FENNER'S AND Backache Also Purifies the Blood. Don't become discouraged. There la a enre for you. If necessary write Dr. l eaner. He has spent a 11 fetlme curing Just such cases as yours. All consultations FREE. Had all the Symptoms of Bright's Disease. Sold by Druggists, 50c. and $1. the Kidneys EEE. M. M. Our January Directory With 2000 519 Kansas Avenue. Always Rempmber tbe Fun .Name j laxative Rromo Qmruna, Cores a Cold in One Day. Griptn 3 Days VV- yaJyT ordered a tub of chop suey, but refused tc ray. Sing wing demanded a few yen and Ahearn handed him a nrht hook. A riot call brought over a wagon load of police, who found the ex-pugilist buried beneath three Chinamen and a pile of dishes. TAYLOR. MAKES NEW RECORD Stagg'a ftuarter-Miler Seta a Mark for One Lap on Track. Chicago, Jan. 28. Athletes at the University of Chicago are becoming accustomed to the curves on the new running track in the Bartlett gymna sium and some good work was shown by members of the track Bquad yester day. "Tommy" Taylor surnrised Coach Stacg bv showing a good bit of sprml- inr tbil'.ty. The diminutive quartei- n iler was sent after the record for one lap made by Rice, the ex-Purdue sprint er, la.t week. Taylor took the turns easily anri came home a fifth of a sec ond ahesa of Rice's mark. His time was 0:1". 1-5. Several of the distance runners were given some pace trials, Stagg telling them to run a mile as close to nve minutes as possible. "Pat" Henry made the distance in 5:00 3-5, and James Lightbodj went him one better, doing thf- mile in 5:00 2-5. The reduced baseball squad was given soma fast work at ground balls yes terday. The new batting cage has n jt bf-en put in position yet, and work wiiii the stick will not begin until next wetk. Fitzsimmons' "Mitts" in Lawsuit. Philadelphia, Jan. 28. Anthony J. Drexel Biddle, millionaire, brought suit today asainst the United States Fidel ity and Guaranty company to recover $3,000 on apolicy of burglary insurance. After Fitzsimmons won the world's championship by defeating Corbett at Carson City, Mr. Biddle entertained the champion pugilist at a dinner. As a compliment for the hospitality "Lanky Bob" presented Mr. Biddle with the bloodstained gloves with which he had knocked out Corbett. The "mitts" were nut in a glass and ebony case In Mr. Biddle's private gymnasium. They were stolen, but the guaranty company offered to pay only $20. Racing at New Orleana. New Orleans, Jan. 28. The eastern contingent effected a coup with A. L. Aste's colt. Modred Law, in the Debu tante stakes. The Parke pair. Arch Oldham and Stelle Allen, were favorites at 4 to 5 in the betting, with the Morris-Walden entry, Viperine and All Scarlet, a strong second choice at 9 to 2. Modred Law opened at 100 to 1, and 73 to 1 was plentiful at post time. The stake was worth $1,200 to the winner. Viperine had the best of the start, and led for half the distance, when the ABte colt caught up with him and drew away without any effort in the run. Scorpio and Blue Mint were the only winning favorites. Hymettus was run up to $1, 900 after the last race, and bought in. The weather was cloudy and cold, and the track fast. Racing at Frisco. San Francisco, Jan. 28. Waswift took the mile handicap, which was the fea ture, at Oakland, and ran the distance in 1:39. A field of four met in the event with Gold Money a 1 to 2 favorite. Waswift received strong support. Hil- Vou don't know how good a genuine Welsbach light is until you use it Then you'll have no other. A5 Dealers. Y This Shield on the Burner tomum t n All Diseases of the -kidneys, bladder, and urinary organs. Also catarrh, heart disease, gravel, dropsy, rheumatism, backache. OA female troubles. Mr. I. N. Poole, proprietor of one of the best barber shops in Muncie, Ind.r has words of praise for Dr. Fen ner's Kidney and Backache Cure. Ho writes Dr. Fenner "I have taken several bottles of your Kidney and Backache Cure, have used many other kinds of so-called kidney cures, but none are to be compared with Dr. M. M. Fenner's, as all others have failed and Dr. Fenner's has com pleted a cure. 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Stem Winder won the fourth. In doing so he lowered the track record for the Slauson course to 1:00 flat. The weather was perfect and the track good. New Texas League Organized. Fort Worth, Tex., Jan. 28. The North Texas Baseball association has been organized, with A. A. Abey as presi dent and secretary; W. H. Ward, treas urer. The league will be comDosed ol the following cities: Fort Worth, Dal las, Corsieana and Ardmore. The sea son wiU oDen April 27. The club man agers are: W. H. Ward. Fort Worth; Joe Gardner. Dallas; J. D. Roberts. Corsicana, and W. H. Miller, Ardmore. McClelland-Herman Bout Kansas City, Jan. 28. Tonight in the Missouri Athletic club's arena at Vine yard's hall Jack McClelland and "Kid" Herman are slated to travel 20 rounds. The agreement signed by the boys calls for a purse of Jl.lM) and a side bet of J500. The battle will be fought under straight Marquis of Queensberry rules and Iave Porteus will hand down the decision. A Guaranteed Cure for Piles. 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TOPEKA STATE JO 0 KNAL, THURSDAY EVENING. J AIsTJAItY 28, 1904. 3 Mud stains are Ivory Soap will remove trouble some spots and restore the original freshness to a good piece of cloth. It is because of the purity of Ivory Soap that it cleanses so thoroughly and yet is so perfectly safe. Ivory 99 40 Per MILE EVERY 3 MINUTES. C. H. Pattison Drives His Automobile at Rapid Gait. Mr. C. H. Pattison and B. H. Cun nlnghara, his chauffeur, drove over from Independence today, says the Cherry vale Republican, in his automobile, a distance of a fraction over eleven miles, in thirty-five minutes, which is a high rate of speed, considering the condition of the road and weather, as they were driving against a strong northeast wind all the way over, making allowance for slow speed in and out of the two towns, also in meeting a wagon or two on the roal- They made the eleven miles in thirty five minutes to the second. Mr. Pat tison's machine is a fine double seated touring car of the "red devil" style, and of a size which is known as the "Model F" packet, weighing 2,600 pounds, and is a machine valued at $3,000, and can run at a maximum rate of forty-five miles an hour. The "Model F" machine is made more for traveling than racing, and is the style of machine used by the profes sional driver Flick when he made his fast trip from San Francisco to New York city in the record breaking time of sixty-one days. Mr. Cunningham says under ordinary weather and road conditions he can make the drive be tween Cherryvale and Independence in twenty minutes' time. CRANBERRY IN MICHIGAN. Boveral Hundred Acre to Be Planted by One Farmer. Grand Haven, Mich., Jan. 28. Lou Coss, a farmer of Spring Lake town ehip has been experimenting in the bogs and marshes that adjoin his place, and will plant several hundred acres of cranberries of the yankee variety. It is claimed that others will follow him in the venture. The cut over lands of the Pere Marquette and the Grand Rap ids and Indiana lines furnish rich tracts for ventures in diversified farm ing. Both of these companies have developed vast tracts along their sev eral lines that has resulted in many markets being supplied with a great variety of fruit. Peaches, cherries and other small fruits have been especially successful, and the experiments have taken place in places from Grand Rap ids to the straits. Death of H, A. Seamans. Lawrence. Kas., Jan. 28. H. A. Sea mans, 52 years of age. died at a local Hospital as the result of an operation performed for an abscess of the bowels. ?;r. Seamans was a traveling man in the employ of the Osborn Art Calendar company, and was a member of Ti-veral traveling men's organizations. He had been a resident of this city for four years. He is survived by a widow and two children. Haskell Indians Defeated. Kansas City, Jan. 28. The Kansas City Athletic club five defeated the team from Haskell institute in the basket ball game last night on the club's courts, by the store of 30 to 23. The eame was a fast one from start to finish, and was marked by rough Don't Delay, Serious Consequences May Result from NEGLECT. iOUgl Beggs' Cherry Coufth Syrup. Cures Bronchitis, Tonsilitis, Sore Throat, Pneumonia, Asthma, Whooping Cough, Pleurisy, Coughs and Colds. Avoid Substitutes. Ask your Dealer. Pric,25and50ct3.perbottle Step That not serious; Soap Cent. Pure. playing, both sides scoring many fouls, Twenty-minute halves were played. At the close of the first half the score stood 11 to 10 in favor of the Indians. In the second half, however, the Ath letics did splendid team work, and with sensational goal throwing by Strotz and Allen easily drew away from their red opponents. The victory gives the Athletic club the chamDionshin of the Missouri valley. TRADES EGGS FOR COAL. Five Dozen Even Pays for the Fuel in Central Illinois. Bloomington, 111., Jan. 28. A Macon county farmer traded five dozen fresh eggs for a ton of bituminous coal, es tablishing a new record for high price of the former. The eggs were valued at 40 cents per dozen and the coal was sold for $2 a ton. Both parties to the deal were satisfied. The egg man started into the poultry business on an extensive scale last spring with loo hens and pullets. He sold during the summer SlbO worth of eggs and chick ens and figures up his feed bill at less than $60, his net profits being $100. He finds that the extra attention paid to this department of his farm brought in satisfactory returns. DOG FINDS HEAD OF INFANT Mystery at Indianapolis Being Invest igated by the Coroner. Indianapolis, Jan. 2S. The police learned today that a dog belonging to August Earth, living south of the city, came home carrying the head of a year old infant. Mrs. Barth placed the head in a box and Barth threw it into a vault. They said the head appeared to have been cut from the body with a knife. No child has been reported missin. Smallpox Scare at Normal. Bloomington, 111., Jan. 2S. Thirty cases of smallpox, and eight new cases reported since Saturday, have caused alarm at the Normal. Special sessions of the school and town boards were held last night to discuss the situation. The school board decided not to close the schools, but to permit only varci nated pupils to attend. The town board voted to strictly enforce the quarantine Jaw:,, and appointed additional officers to assist in their enforcement. So far as known none of the 400 students or faculty of the State Normal have con- tarcted the disease. Hart an Association Umpire. Milwaukee. Wis., Jan. 28. The Daily News today says that William Hart, former pitcher and manager of the P oria W estern leag1 team, has been appointed on the staff of umpires of the American association. REAL ESTATE TRANSFERS. J. M. Baird and wife to P. B. Lee, $10, lot Zi Highland avenue, Seabrook sub. Mary O. Kreipe to same, $9, lot 16 Mis sion avenue and lots 25 and 27 Highland avenue, beaorook sub. H. A. Shepard and husband to B, Henley, $200, lots 297 and 299 Jefferson street, Paramore s second addition. J. B. Dill and wife to A. Calderwood $125, lots 193, 195, 197, 199, 201 and 203 Massachusetts avenue, Highland Park sub. A. Ford and wife to E. Westerdale, $1,100, lots Ell and 513 Seward avenue, C. R. Jones' addition. B. Henley to H. A. Shepard, $1, lots 297 and 299 Jefferson street, Paramore's second adaition. F. J. Mather and -wife to P. B. Lee. $L lots xb ana is, .Mission avenue, Sea brook's addition. Tax deed to F. J. Mather lots IS and 18 Mission avenue, Seabrook avenue. Perfect Confidence. Where there used to be a feeling of uneasiness and worry in the household wnen a cnua snowea symptoms o croup, there is now perfect confidence. This is berlain's Cough Remedy in the treatment vi. mat vi lot mi .u. x. casiora j'ojving l ner ex perience in the use of that remedy, says: I Vi3t it u a.---1 nf sswi f- S 1 i fiar a n'a Pmicrh X T ntun:uj iui nave iiseu it with perfect success. My child Garland is subject to severe attacks of croup and For sale by all druggists. RAILROjlDNEWS. Reported That Rock Island Will Make Important Change. General Superintendent Hay Be MoTed to Kansas Citj. QUEER CIRCUMSTANCES Byram's Headquarters Not Spe cified in His Appointment. Local Officers Say They Hare No Information. According to the Kansas City Star, arangements are said to have been made to remove the office of. the gen eral superintendent of the Rock Island lines west of the Misouri river from Topeka to Kansas City. J. M. Gruber, general superintendent, has resigned, and the circular announcing the ap pointment of H. E. Byram as his suc cessor omits the statement as to where Mr. Byram's headquarters will be lo cated. Mr. Byram succeeds to his new position tomorrow. Then it is expected that the fcrmal announcement will be made removing his headquarters to Kansas City. The office of the general superintend ent will probably be in the Bryant building, at Eleventh street and Grand avenue, with the other general offices removed from Topeka. The removal of the offices of the assistant general pas senger agent and the general freight agent from Toueka in the summer of 1902 was accompanied by the statement from Kock Island officials that the op eiating offices of the lines west of the river would be consolidated with the operating offices of the Kansas City Pt. Louis line and placed in Kansas City. It is this policy that is being followed in the proposed removal of the general superintendent's office from Topeka to Kansas City. The officials here say they know noth ing of the above reported change. They say it wag rumored two months ano that the change would be made soon. SHOW THEM GOOD TIME. St. Louis Will Entertain the Passen ger and Ticket Agents. St. Louis, Jan. 28. Members of the American association of general pas senger and ticket agents will arrive today from all -parts of the country to attend the special meeting called here at the invitation of the World's fair management and in pursuance of the resolution adopted at the New Or leans con'ention last October. The meeting will be called to. order at the Southern hotel at 10 a. m. tomorrow. At 10:45 a. m. the passenger men and the ladies accompanying them will be taken in special cars from the hotel to the World's fair grounds. After tra versing the grounds, luncheon will be served at the Inside Inn at 1:30 p. m. To this luncheon all the visiting pas senger officials in attendance at the meeting being held" in this city, the lo cal officials and the ladies accompany ing the American association are invi ted. President Francis and the direc tors and officials of the World's fair will be present likewise, and all are in vited to participate. The street cars will leave the grounds at 3 p. m. for the return trip to the Southern hotel. In the evening at 7:30 the American asso ciation will be entertained at dinner at the Mercantile club by the Business Men's league. In the parlors of the Southern from 8:30 p. m. to 11:30 p. m. the ladies accompanying the American association will be entertained by the ladies of St. Louis. On Thursday morn ing the American association will as semble at the Southern hotel for a business session, and World's fair rates will be discussed and the recommenda tions of the St. Louis terminal lines will be received. KEBALLAST THE S. K. Biggest Bock Crusher in West Being Installed by Santa Fo. Ottawa, Kan., Jan. 28. The'Santa Fe will reballast its entire Southern Kan sas division this spring. The company is installing the biggest rock crusher in the west at Pottawatomie, three miles north of Garnett to prepare the rock for the ballast work. A large force of men with 30 teams is now en gaged in constructing yards at the crusher. This division of the Santa Fe has been long in need of improvement. The track has been in such condition that it was impossible to make anything like fast time. The purpose of this im provement is more far-reaching than to improve the conditions for local traf fic. The Santa Fe will, when this work is completed, send its through trains to California over this route. From North Ottawa these trains will run south through Iola and Chanute to the end of this division, and then over the Panhandle in Texas. It will be possi ble in this way to decrease greatly the time necessary to make the run. This route is shorter and more free from grades. TAKE NO AISES. Chicago Operating Officials Forbid Excessive Speed by Passengers. Chicago, 111., Jan. 28. Nearly every railroad centering in Chicago issued or ders forbidding engineers of high speed trains to exceed their schedule time and instructing division superintendents to see that everything possible was done to insure safety in train operation. In ad dition to this many of the railroads were compelled to place a temporary embargo against "dead freight," resting content with getting the perishable freight over the road so long as the sharp weather lasts. This winter has proved the worst from an operating standpoint the railroads have experienced in many years. Con tinued cold spells have necessitated the constant use of engines until many of them are unfit for duty and still cannot be spared for repairs. Yesterday and the day before nearly every railroad in the north suffered severely. SANTA FE COAL LINE. Will Build 65 Miles of Track in New Mexico. Chicago, Ill.,Jan. 28. The Santa Fe will, it is reported, build a branch from San Felipe, N. M., to reach the coal fields near Sloan, about 65 miles distant. Santa Fe Official a Hog Fancier. R. C. Runnels, who is foreman of the bridge and building department of the Sanla Fe and who is also somewhat of a farmer and owns land six miles south of Wichita on Lsrwrence avenue, lias just received two thoroughbred gilts of the Poland China variety. The dam of one sold for $30,000 but a short time ago and In 1901 took first prize at the in ternational live stock exhibit in Chicago. Wichita Eagle. SPEND $70,000,000. Pennsylvania Railroad Plans Some Costly New Work. Plans for improvements and altera tions on the Pennsylvania railroad be tween New York and Pittsburg, involv ing an expenditure of nearly $70,000,000, have been approved by President A. J. Cassatt. This work is exclusive of the North and East River tunnels and the New York terminal. It is the purpose of the Pennsylvania management to four track the road all the way from Jersey City to Pittsburg and to have six tracks for a considerable portion of the dis tance. Grades are to be reduced and curves eliminated wherever possible. The work of replacing old bridges with massive structures of stone and steel which has been in progress for more than a year ws be continued. A notable feature of the Pennsylvania improvements is the straightening of the line through the Alleghany mountains. The present line between Portage and Lilly is as crooked as a winding brook. A new line is to be built which will save one mile in five in distance, and will be comparatively straight. Grades which are now irom twelve to fifteen feet in the thousand will be reduced to about three. Half a dozen cuts through solid rock are to be made, each about 100 feet long. About $1,000,000 is to be expended on the stretch of track between Altoona and Pittsburg. Tins improvement will include track elevation inPittsburg and the establishment of five new freight yards. Railroad men say that traffic on the 116 miles of line between Altoona and Pittsburg is heavier than on any similar length of railroad in the world. Many miles of new siding are to be constructed on this division. WILL BOOM TEXAS. Santa Fe and Southern Pacific to Make a Development Campaign. Both the "Southern Pacific and the Santa Fe railroads have determined to concentrate their efforts during the next few years toward the settlement and de velopment of Texas and the southwest. G. M. McKinney, immigration agent for the Harriman system, has just returned from a Texas trip, on which he was ac companied by a party of capitalists from Canada. February 4 he will take a party of Chicago board of trade men on a trip through Texas, and it is expected that the result will be an influx of fresh Chi cago capital. He also stated that a new Chicago Investment company had been organized with a view to investing sev eral hundred thousand dollars in the rice lands of Texas. "The very best element is being at tracted by the resources disclosed in Texas," said Mr. McKinney, "and there is a remarkable now of capital there Five years ago the people of this coun try thought that the greater part of Texas was not fit to live in, but now this state is recognized as standing at the head of the states offering advant ages to the investor and the homeseek er." The interest of the Santa Fe in Texas has been enhanced by the acquisition of the Cane Belt railway, which cuts the rice lands in their center. It is under stood that if present plans are carried out the Santa Fe will enlarge its appro priation for colonization work in Texas, and that a new bureau with Will Nich olson at its head may be established. CUTS GRAIN RATES. Great Western Again Starts Trouble for Freight Officials. Kansas City, Mo., Jan. 28. The Chi cago Great Western railway late yes terday announced a drastic cut in the freight rate on wheat from Kansas City to Minneapolis, that completely overcomes the discriminating rate re cently adopted from Omaha to Min neapolis. The present rate is 14 cents a hundred pounds. The Great Western announced that from January 30 it will haul wheat for nine cents, which is the rate recently put on at Omaha. The Great Western road not only an nounces a reduction of 5 cents in the Minneapolis wheat rate, but it also will cut 2 cents from the rate from Kansas City to Chicago and to the Mississippi river. The result is likely to be a demoralization of the whole western rate situation, for the other roads will meet the reductions made by the Great Western, and it is likely also that there will be a big cut in the rates to Gulf ports. It is not unlikely, also, that the reductions may extend to some lines of merchandise. SHOPS SHUT DOWN. Santa Fe Machine Department Closed by Bursting of Steam Pipes. Owing to a break in the steam pipes leading to the machine shops at the Santa Fe this morning just about time for the day's work to begin, it was found necessary by the officials to close the machine shops for the day. About 1.000 men are idle for the day, as the result of the unfortunate acci dent. It is thought that the accident tir be repaired in time for work to be resumed at the machine shops Friday morning. WON'T PAT THE BONUS. $50,000 Withheld by Vernon, Tex., Because Agreement Not Fulfilled. Guthrie, Okla., Jan. 28. The Black well, Enid and Southwestern Construc tion company, with headquarters at St. Louis, and which built the line from Blackwell, Okla., to Vernon, Tex., for the Frisco, has sued the citizens of Vernon for $50,000 bonus, which, the citi zens pledged the road if it would build to that city. The citizens claim that the road was not completed within the required time, and refused fo pay the bonus. Henry S. Ames, E. A. Nixon and W. B. Doddridge of St. Louis are among the witnesses assembled at Ver non to testify in the case. PAY $16 PER DAY. Russian Agents Here After American Railway Employes. New Haven, Conn., Jan. 28. Alexan der Stephonoff, who claims to repre sent the Transsiberian railroad, passed through here la8t night, remaining three hours, and offering large sums to railroad mechanics to go to Russia to run trains. He offered engineers $16 HOSTETTElfe l CELEBRATED M To prevent Colds, Chills or Malaria, there is nothing so sure as the Bitters. It ton es up the system, stirs up the sluggish blood, and posi tively cures Sick Headache Dizziness, Insomnia, Indigestion, Dyspepsia and Constipation. A fair trial will convince you. .STOMACHA per day and firemen, brakemen and cunu actors iu a day. He was accom- Danied hv t UVI luff, XT, an teed contracts for two years' jobs. e iexc loaay to enroll other railroad Triton iti Q nrii, t;,. i i ,-...i.i,v iv, 1.1 1 1 DUBLUII, ailU said thaf he would stop here next week and take back to Russia the railroad ers whom he can Induce to join him. SWEAR OFF UNIONS. Pacific Express Company Men Must Sign a Pledge. Omaha, Neb.. Jan. 2S. Sunt. Geo. D. Patterson has presented to the em ployes of the Pacific express company for their signatures a pledge by which, they agree not to join the brotherhood of expressmen of America, or any other labor organization. The pledge contains a stipulation that failure to observe the agreement shall be considered by the employe notice of his resignation. Supt. x-atterson said he did not wish any of the men in his division to become members of a labor union, and took this plan of assuring himself of their not doing so. "KATY" WILL KEEP HOTEL. Railroad to Run Its Own Rooming House at St. Louis. The Missouri, Kansas Texas Rail way company is arranging to supply rooming quarters for World's fair vis itors who come to St. Louis next year from its territory. The plan proposed is that the Katy agents will solicit business, with the understanding that the company will arrange for accommodations at St. Louis. This arrangement will assure Katy patrons that their accommodations can be arranged for in advance, which will materially tend to very largely in crease travel to St. Louis. INSPECT MIDDLE DIVISION. Meade, Fox and Earl Start on a Gen eral Roundup. Newton. Kan.. Jan. 2S. J. M Mfaflp. ns. sistnnt chief engineer of the eastern grand division of the Santa Fe, in com pany with Superintendent Fox and Res ident Engineer W. H. Earl of this city, started this morning from Newton on a general inspection trip over the middle di vision to include the main line and the branches. Their train consisted of an engine and the superintendent's private Burt Starts for the Orient. Omaha, Jan. 28. Horace G. Burt and Mrs. Burt will start tomorrow on a world's tour, going from this city di rect to San Francisco. From San Francisco they will sail for the Orient, where they will spend several months. He will make it strictly a pleasure trip. His u Streak of Bad Luck." Engineer Ed Ward had a streak of bad luck last week. He nas taking a train into jNewton ana because he couldn t help it his train stopped across a street some time. He was arrested for blocking the crossing and it cost him $9 to square him self with the city ordinances. His evi dence that he couldn't have avoided it had little impression on the police judge. Emporia Gazette. ABOUT RAILROAD PEOPLE. E. G. Little of the Harriman lines was a caller at the local offices of the Rock island yesterday. Mr. Little's headquar ters are in Kansas City. The Union Pacific Railroad comnanv. in anticipation of a possible strike among the bituminous coal miners, has stored 200,000 tons of soft coal at Omaha. E. C. Gavitt. a Santa Fe machinist In the employ of the company at Newton, has returned to that place after a short visit in Topeka. Mr. Gavitt was here cn business. J. M. Blair, suoerintenrtent nf thp "Kan sas City terminals division of the Rock Island, has returned to his headquarters in Kansas City after a short conference with the general superintendent of the road. George C. Peters, an emnlnvft of the local Santa Fe shops, is visiting his brother, Frank Peters, who is employed by the Santa Fe at their shops in San Bernardino, Cal. Mr. Peters will be away for about two months. The Union Pacific and Southern Pacific have opened an office in Kansas City, in charge of Assistant General Pasaencor Ageni Harry Kail of the Union Pacific, wno is also general agent tor the South ern Pacific. It is reported that the Great Northern Express company has taken out a policy with an indemnity company for $100,000 to protect it against train robberies. it is stated that the Santa Fe is ex pending two millions of dollars on their yards in San Francisco, which does not include the cost of the buildings. It is stated that the Santa Fe is build ing high board fences around their shops at both Albuquerque and San Bernardino, the same as was done here a short time ago. The company states that their pur pose in building these fences Is to pro tect their property from sneak thieves. it has Deen tound that watchmen are not very effective in the protection of the company's property. Almost all the westbound Santa Fe pas senger trains were delayed Wednesday on account of a slight freight wreck at Sib ley, Mo. The wreck occurred at 7 o'clock yesterday morning, and although the en gine was derailed and the train badly shaken up, no one was hurt. As the re sult of the wreck the California limited arrived in Topeka six hours late and No. 1 four hours late. An El Paso official who is troubled a great deal about passes has some cards printed with Biblical proof that passes should not be given. The card has print ed across the top these words: "They did not use passes then," and among the quo tations are the following: "Thou shalt not pass." Numbers xx:lS. "Suffer not a man to pass." Judah. "None shall fever pass." Mark viii:30. "So he paid the fare and went." Jonah i:3." IDAHO FOR ROOSEVELT, State Central Committee Passes Resolutions Endorsing Him. Washington, Jan. 28. Senator Heyburn of Idaho called on the president and pre sented to him a telegram which he had received from the chairman of the cen tral committee of his state giving the text of a resolution adopted by the com mittee cordially indorsing the administra tion and Mr. Roosevelt personally lor nomination for president. Following is the text of the resolution "We, the Republican state committee of Idaho, in regular session assembled at Boise, Idaho, most heartily indorse the strong, unequivocal, determined and up right course of President Roosevelt in his administration of national affairs as well as his fidelity to the best interests of the people of Idaho and the Republican party therein. We recognize in him a man whose views are not bound by the condi tions and needs of any particular sec tion of the country, but a champion of the people's rights and an executive whose knowledge of and experience in the great west especially fit him to deal in telligently with the problems seeking so lution in that section of the union. We unhesitatingly declare in favor of Hon. Theodore Roosevelt as the next nominee of the Republican party for president and we earnestly favor the selection of dele gates from Idaho to the coming national convention instructed to work for his nomination." Inflammatory Rheumatism Cnred in One Day. H. Scott Donnelly of Helena, Mont., says: After lying helpless with rheuma tism for two weeks, under the physician's care. I was induced to try Mystic Cure for rheumatism. In less than 21 hours 1 was able to get up, dress and go down stairs. I can heartily recommend the Mysiic Cure to any one suffering with rheumatism. Sold by Rowley Snow, druggists, 6th and Kansas ave. THOUSANDS HAVE TROUBLE A! I i-'M-'ii-1 --I l'---f -.,aaar-... 1 I V i fccwnBfT-.nik.arWiciiitttacQ; To Prove what Swamp -Root, the Great Kidney Remedy, will do for YOU, Every Reader of "The State Journal May Have a Sample Bottle Sent Free by Mail. Weak and unhealthy kidneys are responsible for more sickness eftd Buffering than any other disease, therefore, when through neglect or other causes, kidney trouble Is permitted to continue, fetal results are sure to follow. Your other organs may need attention but your kidneys most, be cause they do most and need attention first. If you are sick or "feel badly." begin taking Dr. Kilmer's Swamp Root, the great kidney, liver and bladder remedy, because as sdbn as your kidneys begin to get better they will help nil the other organs to health. A trial will convince anyone. The mild and Immediate effect of Swamp-Root the great kidney and bladder remedy is soon realized. It stands the highest for Its wonderful cures of the most distressing cases. fiwamp-Koot will set your whole sys tem right, and the best proof of this is a trial. 14 E. 139th St., New Tork City. Dear Sir: Oct. 15th, 1903. "I had been suffering severely from kidney trouble. All symptoms were on hand: my former strength and power had left m; I could hardly drag myself along. Even my mental capacity was giving out, and often I wished to die. It was then I saw an advertisement of yours in a New York paper, but would not have paid any attention to it, had it not promised a worn guarantee with every bottle of vour medicine, asserting that your Swamp-Root is purely vegetable, and does not contain any harmful drugs. 1 am 70 years and 4 month3 old, and with a good conscience I can recommend Swamp-Root to all sufferers from kidney troubles. Four members of my family have been using Swamp-Root for four different kidney diseases, with the same good results." With many thanks to you. I remain, very truly yours, ROBERT BERNER. You may have a sample bottle of this famous kidney remedy, Swamp-Root, sent free by mail, postpaid, by which yau may test its virtues for such dis orders as kidney, bladder and uric acid diseases, poor digestion, being obliged SPECIAL. NOTICE; If you have the slightest symptoms of kidney or bladder trouble, or if there is a trace of it in your family history, send at once to Dr. Kilmer Co.. Binghamton, N. Y., who will gladly send you by mail. Immediately, without cost to you, a sample bottle of Swamp-Root and a book containing many of the thousands upon thousands of testimonial letters received from men and women cured. In writing, be sure to say that you read this generous offer in the Topeka Daily State Journal. BRIEF TELEGRAMS. Millersburg.O., Jan. 28. Caleb Tharp. believed to have been the oldest sol dier of the civil war, is dead at his home in Ripley township, Knox county, aged 103 years. His widow is 101 years old. Washington, Jan. 2?. J. Pierpont Morgan, accompanied by Bishop W. C. Doane of Albany, arrived here last night for a few days' stay. Springfield, 111., Jan. 28. The Repub lican state central committee decided to hold the state convention at Spring field May 12. Wotorhnrv rvnn.. Jan. 28. General Stephen V. Kellogg, a former con gressman and a delegate to tne KepuD lican national convention which nomi nated Abraham Lincoln for president, died here last night aged 93 years. New York, Jan. 28. The identity of the American woman killed last night in an automobile accident near LaNapcule, France, has been learned. She was Mrs. J H. Rathbone, a wealthy widow of Baltimore and sister of the wife of Prof. Otto Gramsey, Yale medical school. nri,!r, Tan 9X In the trial of August W. Machem and others charged with conspiracy to aeirauu me eJ vc- nnnotinn with the sale of Groff letter box fasteners, the prosecu tion has restea its case. St. Louis, Jan. 28. The National Edi torial association in accordance with ar- r, nmnlafOll V.V thP eiPClltive committee, will hold its nineteenth an nual convention m St. iouis iviay xo, xi, 18 and 19. Salt Lake City, Jan. 28. Bankruptcy proceedings were filed and admitted to day by creditors, mostly New York firms, of the department store known as Tor.o hr.iieA rtf this! itv. TJahilitips estimated at $75,000 and assets about No Dessert More Attractive Why use gelatine and f spend hours soaking, f and coloring wnen produces better results in two minutes? Everything in the package. Simply add hot water and set to cool. It's perfection. A sur prise to the housewife. Ko trouble, less ex pense. Try it to-day. In Four Fruit Fla vors: Lemon, Orange, Strawberry, Rasp berry. At grocers. 10a. KIDNEY DON'T IT to pass your water frequently night ana day, smarting or Irritation In passing, brick-dust or sediment In the urine, headache, backache, lame bacX dizzi ness, sleeplessness, nervousness, heart disturbance due to bad kidney trouble, skin eruptions from bad blood, neu ralgia, rheumatism, diabestes, bloating, irritability, wornout feeling, lack of ambition, loss of flesh, sallow complex Ion, or Bright's disease. If your water, when allowed to re main undisturbed In a glass or bottle for twenty-four hours, forms a sedi ment or settling or has a cloudy ap pearance. It is evidence that your kid neys and bladder need immediate at tention. Swamp-Root Is the great discovery of Dr. Kilmer, the eminent kidney and bladder specialist. Hospitals use it with wonderful success In both slight and severe cases. Doctors recommend It to their patients and use It in their own families, because they recognize In Swamp-Root the greatest and most succesful remedy. Swamp-Root is pleasant to take ancl is for sale at drug stores the world over In bottles of two sizes and two prices fifty cents and one dollar. Re member the name, Swamp-Root, Dr. Kilmer's Swamp-Root, and the ad dress, Binghamton, N. Y., on every bottle. $8 TO $12 WEEKLY eiuriiT earned by either sex kolttlncr flMmlese Hosiery fw the Western Markt. 0it Improved Family Machine with Ribbing Attachment fur nished worthy famines who do nut own Machine on easy payment plan. Write at onoe to? oli particulars and oonmenc making mosey fco expert see required. UNITED STATES WOOLEN CO., Detroit, Mich. The best Equipment Is employed to make the Five Cents a Day Telephone a quick and reliable means of communication. Missouri Kansas Tela Cs. 'Pboni 999 $60,000. The store was under the man agement of Ransahoft Brothers. Tonawanda, N. T.. Jan. 28. Flra that started Just before midnight de stroyed all the lumber In the yards ot White Rider and Frost. Loss J150.000. Congratulations. Mr. John H. Cullom, editor of the (Jar land, Texas, News, has written a lettjr of congratulations to the manufacturers of Chamberlain s Cougr.1 Kennedy as fol lows: "Sixteen vtia ago, when our first child was a oabv he was suoject t croupy spells nni we would be vey un easy about him. We began using Cham berlain's Cough Remedy in 18S7, and find ing it such a reliable remedy for colds and croup, we have never been without it in the house since that time. We have five children and have given it to al! of them with eroo I results. One good fp.av ure of this remedy is that Jt in not disa greeable to take and our babies reallv like it. Another is that it Is not dans-" ous and there is no risk from giving overdose. I congratulate you upon t-fc success of your remedy." Fur rale b(r all druggists. Wood for 8alk At the Associated Charities, lli Kan sas avenue, Ind. Tel. 844-3. This wood has been sawed by the unemployed who ask aid, and is being sold to re cover the cost. Tou will greatly as sist the association by sending us your orders. Send ail applicants for aid to above address. C. B. VAN HORN, General Secretary. HOW mm wp' nHE fAMILYrVADWlNNS.

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4 TOPEKA STATE JOUBNAITHTJESDAY EVENING, JANUARY 28, 1904. TOPEKA STATE JOURNAL BY FRANK P. MAC LENNAN. VOLUME XXXI. 24 TERMS OP SUBSCRIPTION: Dally edition, delivered by carrier. 11 cents a weak to any part of Tonataa, or cuburbs, or at the same price in any Kan sas towns w'.tera the paper has a carrier system. Kv mall, one year J3.60 By mail, three months vv eekly edition, one vear 5 Saturday edition or dally, one year l.OJ Entered July 1 1875, as sacond class matter at the postoffice at Topeka. Kan, under the act of congress. TELEPHONES. Buslnes Offlco Bell 'phone 10V Business Office Ind. 'phone 107-2 Reporters R ocm ......Bell 'phone 67i Reporter- P.ooni Ind. 'phono lu7 1 PERMANENT HOME. Topeka "Statu Journal building. SW and K2 Kansas avenue, corner of Eighth. NEW YORK OFFICE: 811 Vanderbllt Bldg. Paul Block. Mgr. CHICAGO OFFICE: 1540 Unity Bldg. Paul Block, Mgr. STILL LEASED WXUS RSPOST OF TSE ASSOCIATED PRESS. The State Journal is a member of the Assuclaced Press and receives the full day telegraph report of that great news or rcatuzatlnn for exclusive afternoon publica tion in Topeka. The news la received in the State Jour nal buun, ne over wires for this sdie pur toss, dusv throughout the entire day. A vou;3:e'.o copy of the night report i also The fate of Whi taker Wright is likely to start an exodus of "iet Rich Quick" men from London to St. Louis. Col. Bryan seems inclined to stick to past platform utterances on silver as closely as Republican platforms ad here to the time honored resolution favoring statehood for the territories. The St. Paul Globe man thinks he sees the finist-i of that $3,000,000 which Russian capitalists have got together to fight the Standard Oil trust. Chi cago university will get every cent ol it. There are a lot of Republicans and Democrats who see certain defeat for their respective parties unless their own particular ideas be placed In the platform and their choice for president be nominated. The annihilation of the Jersey mos quito will form the basis for a unique exhibit in the palace of forestry, fish and game at the World's fair. Small minnows that float on the surface and eat the eggs desposited. by the mos quito Is what New Jerseyites are de pending on to rid them of the mosquito i pests. Col. Bryan has carried the war Into Africa. Once more he has invaded the enemy's country. Just when the Dem ocrat press and politicians of the east thought they had him buried and each one was striving for an opportunity to throw a spadeful of dirt on the grave, he plumped down in New York, full of his old time life and vigor and made a speech in Madison Square Garden and he did not lack listeners. His re marks indicate that he has inaugurated an aggressive campaign against the forces of the reorganizers and he is not likely to desist until the convention at St. Louis has decided the matter at issue. Mayor Harrison has been discharged by the court having jurisdiction of the case from all responsibility for the Iro quois theater fire. It is not unlikely that one by one all those held to the grand jury by the coroner will be legally freed from blame. It will be extremely difficult to fix so frightful a responsibility upon any one man or set of men where so many things contrib- uted to the catastrophe, any one oi which omitted might or might not have made a vast difference. The au thorities, as in all times of great public excitement, felt called upon to do some thing to appease the clamor of the peo ple and they have done about the only thing in sight. Time will soften the people's feelings as it always does and It is not likely that anybody will be punished for the Iroquois disaster. TAX REFORM. The annual report of the New York Tax Reform association has just been made public and indicates that the members feel a high degree of satisfac tion with the result of their efforts. Under' the head of "Tax Bills Reduced" the report says: "The honest payers of taxes on per sonal property have saved this year 25 per cent of their usual tax by the en forcement of the law for the assess ment of real estate at full value. Per sonal property when found has always been assessed at full value, and real estate at not more than two-thirds of its value. The man who had $100,000 worth of personal property paid a tax of about $2,200, and the man who had real estate of the same value paid only about $1,600. This was a great injustice to individuals and a great detriment to the city, for the high tax rate on per sonal property tended to drive it away and keep it from coming here. The courts refused relief. "The importance of the assessment of real estate as the law directs can hard ly be overestimated. Kveryone who pays taxes on $100,000 worth of personal property paid at least $G0O less because of this equalization, and will continue to save this sum annually. When the as sessment is half a million dollars, as it is In many cases, the saving Is $3,000 a year. After due allowance is made for the saving to tax payers by the change In sinkng fund requirements the per sonal property tax payers of the city saved over $3,000,000, and this annual saving will continue. "This lessening of the tax burden on capital has actually resulted in getting such an increase of personal property on the assessment rolls that personal property as a whole pays approximately the same proportion of tax as before. "We believe that the present activity of real estate in New York as compared with other cities is largely due to the tact that capital has had leas fear that Investments in mortgages and other personal securities will be confiscated y the assessor." SOMEWHAT PERSONAL. Without attempting to show In what particulars Burton and Hoch's friend and Bailey's opponent, Tom Keliy, is so much better than the governor, the Topeka Capital this morning goes off on a. side issue to the extent of about two columns intimating that the State Journal is not a Curtis organ. The whole trouble with our somewhat dyspeptic and altogether rabid antl-J3ailey neigh bor is that its ideas of conducting a newspaper and the principles of the State Journal are radically and Irre concilably different. This paper is not, and never has pretended to be. an organ of Mr. Curtis, of Mr. Bailey, of Mr. Broderick, or of anybody etee. It Is a newspaper. It stands alone in To peka as the only paper tn whieh. read ers can get all the news. The State Journal enjoys a revenue from but two sources: subscriptions and business ad vertising xt has noofficial state patron age, and expects none, and is not an, applicant or .candidate for any; al though its position in every city elec tion in the past eighteen years has been upheld by the verdict of the peo ple of Topeka at the polls, it has had no official city printing for five years, and has never had the coutnty adver tising. This newspaper is too Inde pendent to please dispensers of patron age. The Topeka Capital receives the official printing from the state, county and city with remarkable regularity. In the face of this lack of patronage, the State Journal is the most prosper ous and widely read newspaper In this community and its circulation during the year Just ended broke all Its former records and exceeded any year in the paper's history. The present month of January exceeds that of any month of lso:!. All of this is merely Introductory to a brief statement; namely, that the State Journal's mission is to print the news and be fair, striving to be reliable and accurate; to assail the wrong and commend the right and demand justice for all. We know that the attack upon Gover nor Bailey is unfair, unjust and un called for; that he has made a good gov ernor. He has offended, however, peo ple of all factions who have tried to boss him; has been accused of raising taxes when his accusers have been the guilty parties. He is an honorable, decent, typical Kansas citizen, and is not charged with a single corrupt act in his official career in the legislature, congress or the governor's office, nor in private or business life. He is as clean and good a governor as ever sat in the j executive chair of the Kansas capitol. For defending Governor Bailey, this paper is abused by organs, but we pro pose to keep on defending him in the face of any temporary gains which his guilty accusers and disappointed office seekers may secure. But to the Curtis question. This newspaner has sorely offended Mr. Curtis and some of the friends of Mr. Curtis on numerous occasions during the past few years because it dared publish the news. Its neighbor has suppressed or garbled considerable news affecting Mr. Curtis one way or the other. We have offended by print ing more than the one elde; the present turmoil in the district shows two sides. A few days ago it was stated in these columns that certain things happened in Jackson county. They did happen. Mr. Curtis was beaten there, and the State Journal said so. The Shawnee county friends of Mr. Curtis, his Jack son county representatives, and hia po litical manipulators In Atchison county have since become partisan acrobats and gone through a variety of the strangest political gymnastics. Those who read these columns know just what waa done, as nearly as the ma neuvers can be followed- thoRe who c Q what was done. We cannot help, it if this whole dis- trict is not unanimous for the renomi nation of Congressman Curtis. We are not manufacturing news; simply pub lishing it. Mr. Curtis dislikes reference to the Horton agreement, which many people think he violated. His friends dislike to have it reported that a few months ago in a public meeting he de clared that he would not believe Gov ernor Bailey upon oath. His friends dislike to have it pointed out that he and Senator Burton have been such close Dolitical allies. We cannot run a newspaper that is a real one without stepping on somebody's toes, and even offending at times warm and particular friends of the naper. The State Journal has printed more columns of complimentary notices about Mr. Curtis than any other paper In Shawnee county that has remained un der one management during the past eighteen years. But the reader knows that a ten line news item of an uncom plimentary nature, or that in any way reflects upon Congressman Curtis, whether justly or unjustly, will offset ten columns of the other kind of news. This is not only true as affecting mat ters concerning Congressman Curtis, but is true to a certain extent In news af- fectinc Mr Leland nr "Tr Wnph r-.r antr other politician, although Congressman Curtis and Senator burton just now seem to be more sensitive than some others. THE PRESS ON BURTON. SENATOR BURTON'S CASE. From the Chicago Inter-Ocean. Senator Burton of Kansas has been indicted by the federal grand jury at St. Louis for accepting money from a client for obtaining favors from the postoffice department at Washington. Senator Burton's defense is that the money paid him was for his service as attorney for Major Hugh C. Dennis, under indictment because of his con nection with the Rialto Grain and Se curities company. This defense is not satisfactory to many of Mr. Burton's friends in Kan sas, who insist that their senator com mitted a serious offense when he agreed to defend in the courts a client under indictment for fraud. As Major Dennis was not found guilty on the charge of fraud this contention has lit tle force. On the charge that he accepted mon ey for using his position and influence as United States senator in the interest of his client Mr. Burton announces that he is ready to answer at once, and that, waiving his privilege as senator, he will go to St. Louis for trial. This is beginning right, but Mr. Bur- ton should go further. The United States senate is recognized as the most dignified and most reputable legislative body in the world. A senator should be above suspicion. He should not permit any alleged misuse of his position or influence to stand against him. The constitution provides for the im peachment and removal from office of the president, vice president, and all civil officers of the United States on "conviction of treason, bribery, or oth er high crimes and misdemeanors." It has been held that this applies to all indictable offenses. Impeachment pro-i ceedings, however, have been brought adjust only two senators, William Blount of Tennessee in 1797, and S. C. Pomeroy of Kansas in 1876. The case of Blount came before the senate in papers submitted by the pres ident, among them being a letter from Senator Blount from which it ap peared that he was engaged in a con-Kpii-acy to transfer New Orleans from Spain to Great Britain. The house gave notice of a motion to imueach Blount, and the senate voted, to expel. Articles of Impeachment were pre pared in 17SS. and Blount tras brought to trial. Meantime he had been elected to the Tennessee state senate, and en tered the ul-ea that as senator he was not a civil officer liable to Impeach ment. The senate sustained this plea, and Blount was acquitted for want of jurisdiction.. Pomeroy was United States senator from Kansas from 1S61 to 1873. He was a -candidate for re-election in 1873, when charges of bribery were presented, and he was defeated. The case was report ed to the senate by a legislative com mittee, was investigated, and a ma jority report declared tihe charges not sustained. The case was then carried before the courts in Kansas, but was thrown out for lack oC evidence. In one of these rases the national house of representatives took the initi ative, and in the other the state legis lature. In other cases where charges have been made agairast senators, the senator involved has ajsked for investi gation, each house of congress having authority, "with the concurrence of two-thirds, to exDel a member." Senator Burton owes it to himself, to his state, and to the senate, to, clear his record. He may do thia to the satisfac tion of the people in the federal courts. But whether he does or not why should he not ask for investigation by the senate? ONE OF THREE. From the New Tork Oommercial Advertiser.J Senator Burton of Kansas has had the extremely bad luck to be Indicted by a federal grand jury, on nine counts, for accepting money for the use of his po litical influence to protect a. concern that was accused of fraudulent conduct to ward the government from the legal consequences of its acta. He received $500 a month for five consecutive months for this successful use otf his Influence. He says that he was simply retained as counsel, that he gave only his legal ser vices, and that, while he "may not be familiar with the laws governing the conduct of a United States senator," he "has never tried directly or indirectly to Influence any department in any shape in this or any other case" since he has been senator. The federal grand jury was convinced by the evidence laid before it that he had so used his influence, otherwise it would not have indicted him under the statute which makes the penalty for such conduct a fine of not more than $10,000 and imprisonment for not more than two years. Senator Burton is the third nationa l statesman to find himself in trouble with this statute in connec tion with the postal scandals. Senator Dietrich was the other United States senator, and he escaped by proving in court that he had not taken the oath of office at the time in which he had taken money for his influence. Ex Congressman Driggs of this state was not so fortunate, for he was convicted of having been a congressman at the time, but he got off with a fine of $10, 000 and a single day's imprisonment be cause of his "dignified behavior" In court and his Ignorance of the terms of the statute. What the outcome of Senator Bur ton's embarrassment will be remains to be seen, but his case looks a good deal more serious than either of the others, though, like Mr. Driggs, he pleads more or less innocence of the annoying restrictions of the law upon the freedom of a member of the con gress of the United States. He says he shall not try to escape on a techni cality, which, under the circumstances, is a wise determination. From the Chicago News. Senator Burton should telegraph Sen ator Dietrich for a supply of unused technicalities. From the Washington Post.l The St. Louis grand jury seems; to have discovered one of the things that is the matter with Kansas. After Sen ator Burton gets his vindication in Mis souri he will have to get an aDuroval of it by the Kansas legislature. The question in Kansas Republican circles is not so much as to whether Senator Burton shall be a delegate at large as it is to whether he shall be at large. From the Chicago News. Anything that will keep them out of jail is a sufficient "vindication" where some United States senators are con cerned. Tomorrow will be the 43rd anniver sary of the birth of Kansas. While there Is much to the state's history to look back upon with pride, it cannot be forgotten that we have had Pomeroy, Lane, Caldwell and Burton. Moreover the latter is still with us. A war in the Orient will make busi ness for our new Pacific cable as well as our wheat growers and packing houses. JAYHAWKIK JOTS. A dog poisoner is abroad at Tola. A book in a McPherson library is 170 years old. The upper crust of Seward have "cut out" pie socials. Troy will be saved if two persistent evangelists can do it. Pneumonia is giving the Fort Scott physicians a multiplicity of patients. Wellington high school pupils want coyote pelts. Wouldn't snowball one-3 be cheaper A Toronto baker sells pies "that are hard to beat." But how about chew- An enterprising Ulysses firm is ad vertising valentines thus far ahead of time. Congressman Curtis is coming west with a trunk full of material for fence repairing purposes. A Fort Scott genius has invented an urn that will make coffee by percola tion. That's cheaper than gasoline. The St. Francis finder of a lost pocketbook got the odd two cents it contained; the owner kept the $20 bill. A sight that impressed a Cherryvale boy most at Frisco was the gold bricks at the mint being ground up Into $20 gold oices. The Haskell Indians are to give a week's concert in Philadelphia. They are already beginning a diet of Quaker oats. Owing to Judge Cunningham's can didacy Emporia papers are steering clear of polities and commenting on the revival only. Burlington is without a truancy offi cer and the street corners are the haunts of the "ornery bov" instead of the school room. Two hundred chickens escaped their Hiawatha owner the other day, and several dozen never came home to roost. WANT THE CANAL Boards of Trades Sends Peti tions to the Senate. Washington, Jan. 28. Among the petitions presented in the senate today was one from the members of the boards of trade of Philadelphia and Brunswick, Ga., for the prompt ratification of the canal treaty. The joint resolution authorizing the accepting from citizens of France pf a reproduction of D' Anger's bust of Washington was passed. When Mr. Morgan's resolution calling for Minister Buchanan's letter concern ing amendments to the canal treaty was land before the senate Mr. Morgan withdrew it, sayinging that he had been informed that it was the intention of the president to send the document in executive session. The "resolution of Mr. Culberson, in troduced at the instance of the Demo cratic caucus, requesting the president to inform the senate whether all the correspondence relating to the con struction of an isthmian canal had been sent to the senate was taken nn ATr Cullom objected to the resolution as too oreaa as to date, and on his suggestion Mr. Culberson amended it n n to limit the request for correspondence since June zx, 1302, the date of the an proval of the Snooner act. Mr Cnlher son then suggested that the resolution be further amended so as to relieve the president from the necessity of send ing information to supply which would, in his opinion, be incompatible with the public interest. Mr. Culberson declined to acceDt this amendment and made a speech in surjport of his objection and in favor of the adoDtion of the resolu tion as it stood. Mr. Cullom assured Mr. Culberson that whether his amend ment was accented or not. "the senate will 2-et all information there is in the department pertinent to the general question." IN THE HOUSE. W asbington, Jan. 28. When the house convened today Mr. "Van Duzer (Nev.) sought to secure consideration of a resolution calling on the secretary of war for information as to what ar ticles manufactured for the department are made by convict labor. Objection to its consideration on the ground that it was not a privileged resolution was sustained. By agreement general debate on the urgent deficiency bill was extended un til 5 p. m. The house then went into committee of the whole and resumed considera tion of the urgent deficiency bill. Mr. Benny (N. J.) speaking in defnese of Mr. Bryan, said he need not feel hurt as he was in good company. He quoted Senator Dolliver as having said at a banquet in Newark that no man had a right to hiss the name of W. J. Bryan. Mr. Benny said It Is the Republican party that is sick. "They have not got Dr. Hanna to say a word to. help them out." he .said. He would inscribe on the shaft to the Republican party at its death that its policies of "let weil enough alone." "stand pat" and "we hold the ace-t killed it with a postscript, signed by Hanna, saying if the report ers had used the word "edge" instead of "ace" they would have been all right. "You brag and blow here about the great courage of the man who is now president of the United States," said Mr. Benny. "The man is a courageous man. who dares to do right. The man who shoots a lion or a Spaniard in the back does not necessarily have to be courageous." The prophecy that to nominate Mr. Roosevelt for vice president would take him out of New York politics did not come true. He said it was proposed to stop the use of carriages by department officials and asked if anything was done to stop the president from using a free train, declaring that he had heard that a free train had been placed at his dis posal. PLUMBERS ARE HERE. Sefentjr Delegates Attending State Meeting. Wednesday evening the annual con vetnion of the Master Plumbers' as sociation of Kansas commenced its ses sion at Sons of Hermann hall. There are about 70 delegates here, and the meetings are being held behind closed doors. People generally suppose that the Master Plumbers' association is another name for the plumbers' trust, and that the annual, conventions are held for the purpose of fixing up sched ules of prices, but the members deny this emphatically. Frank Edson of To peka. said today: "The subject of prices is not even mentioned at our meet ings." The following officers of the associa tion for the ensuing year were elected today: President, William Rowan of Arkansas City; vice president, Carl GiMeber of Lawrence; secretary, A. P. Elder of Ottawa; treasurer, F. H. Bow ers of Emporia; sergeant-at-arms, John Sutherin of Topeka. Some time today the convention will elect nine delegates to the St. Louis National convention which will be held in May. The place for the next annual state meeting will also be selected. E. D. Hornbrook, president of the Na tional Plumbers' association, is here at tending the meeting and made an ad dress this afternoon. E. F. Hall of New York, president of the National Associa tion of Steam Fitters, is also present and made an address last night. Papers will be read today by Frank P. Edson of Topeka on the subject of "Heating Plants" and by Ed Chaney, plumbing inspector of Topeka, on "Workings of theh New Plumbing Ordi nance.'" Nell So he really said he considered me verv witty? Belle Not exactly, dear. He said he had to laugh every time he saw you. Philadelphia, Ledser. Hicks He isn't much like a captain of industry, is he? Wicks No. He's a lieutenant of lazi ness. Somerville Journal. Difficult Digestion That Is dyspepsia. It makes life miserable. Its sufferers eat not because they want to, -but simply because they must. They know they are Irritable and fretful but they cannot be otherwise. They complain of a bad taste In the mouth, a tenderness at the pit of the stom ach, an uneasy feeling! of puffy fulness, headache, heartburn and what not. Tho effectual remedy, proved by perma nent cures of thousand! of severe cases, is Hood's Sarsaparilla Hood's Vilza are the beat cathartic HELLO MEM HERE. i Independent Telephone Asso ciation Sleets in Topeka. President A. A. Godard Deiirtrs Annual Address. GREAT STRIDES MADE. Toll Lines Reach Orer the En tire State. Members to Be Entertained at Smoker Tonight. The telephone men are in session at the Throop hotel today. This is the third annual meeting of the Kansas In dependent Telephone association. When the convention was called to order by President A. A. Godard at 10:30 this morning about 75 members were pres ent, and they are expected to arrive in bunches today until 150 are present. President Godard Delivering His Ad dregs. The convention opened with an ad dress by President Godard, who spoke on the origin and rapid growth of the telephone business, Fjid the great good which had been accompl;hed. In his address President GoOard discussed the McCann case of Johnson county, in which a telephone company has been enjoined by the supreme court from builidng a line on a public highway in front of McCann's property. In this case the farmer, McCann, was beaten in district court, but the decision was reversed in the supreme court. The case had been taken up by attorneys for the Independent Telephone associa tion, said Mr. Godard, and a rehearing of the ease has been granted by the supreme court, with the expectation that the case will come up some time in May. In the McCann case It seems that the farmer objected to a pole being set in front of a gate to his property. The matter was discussed among the mem bers, and it was decided to send a man to Johnson county for the purnose of investigating the case and finding out if an injustice had been done the farm er. It is not the purpose of the asso- B. F. Pankey in Repose. ciation to settle the matter, but to see who is at fault and try to have the wrong righted. Mr. Combs, a member who knew of the case and the contend ing parties, said: "I don't believe the Johnson County Telephone company, which is a farmers' organization, nut a pole in front of McCann's gate, as charged. He may have made a gat a behind the nole after it was set, who knows?" Mr. Combs was delegated to investigat the affair. Showing a Member the Latest in Tele phone. At the close of the discussion com mittees were appointed by the presi dent J. E. Bvers of Ottawa, W. W. Dilworth of Beloit. Austin Miller, B. F. Pankey and A. R Champlain were put on the committee on credentials. The committee on resolutions consists of 1 nil 1 (Mm John Doyle, A. Hodges, Sykes, Valen tine and Watson. A motion was made and carried dur ing the session to request the represen tatives of various manufacturing con cerns who had exhibits in the adjoining rooms to "shut up shop" during the sessions, so that the members might be rounded up to attend. A great growth of business has taken place since the last meeting a year ago. The independent connections are all over the state at present. A complete copper circuit is practically completed to Abilene, Minneapolis and intermediate points. All the work except the string ing of the wires js completed on the Kansas City line. "The Independent Telephone associa tion is different from other similar as sociations," said Mr. Godard in discus sing the business. "It ia not an organ ization for the purpose of fixing, con trolling or raising prices. One system has very little interest in the exchange charges of another. The object of the association Is to advise each other as to the best methods of construction and operation, and to assist in securing ade quate connections between the different exchanges. "Also to raise the standards of con struction and operation. The objects of our association are to better the ser vice to the public and further Its inter ests, as well as the Interests of those who engaged in the business." All manner of telephone appliances are on exhibition at the hotel. "Buz zers" and bells keep up a constant din, and the talk in the various exhibit rooms are unintelligible to any one who is not acquainted with the language of telephone and electric construction. The members will hold a smoker at the Throop parlors tonight. Election of officers for the ensuing year will be the last thing on the programme tomor row evening. The present officers are A. A. Godard, president; A. P. Doyle of Belleville, vice president; Chas. E. Wrells of Marion, secretary;J. W. Smith of Minneapolis, treasurer. There will be a smoker at the Hotel Throop at 8 p. m. tonight. Following is the programme for the closing session Friday: 10 a. m. "Long Distance- Develop ment" James S. Brailey, Jr. "Our Relations to the Manufac turer" C. H. Munsell 2 p. m. "Salient Points ofConstruc- tion at Kansas City" W. C. Polk. C. E. Discussion of matters of general in terest. Election of officers. Adjournment. BURDOCK IS HERE. Serenth District Congressman Arrives in Topeka. Congressman Victor Murdock, presi dent of the Kansas Day club, arrived In Topeka from Washington this after noon to attend the annual banquet of the club tomorrow night. Mrs. Mur dock accompanied him. and they ex pect to remain in Kansas about ten da&'s. After three months in coneress. Mr. Murdock says that he is strongly im pressed with the great prevalence of horse sense in official circles in Wash ington. "You may say what you please about Washington social life, which is, of course, very artificial," said Congress man Murdock this afternoon, "in offi cial circles there is a great deal of horse sense. You may go into the de partments, into the White House, into congress, or anywhere, and that is what you find, and the man who doesn't talk good horse sense doesn't get much at tention. "I have been Impressed, too, by the fact that the members of, the house I don't know so much about the senate are extremely responsive to their con stituency. They are very susceptible to the calls of their people." Mr. Murdock said he knew nothing about any invitation to Senator Burton to speak at the club. The politicians are beginning to gather In from different parts of the state to attend the banquet tomorrow night. Secretary Neliis is looking after the arrangements and Representative hall is being prepared for the gather ing. Ladies will be admitted by card to the ladies' gallery and will be per mitted to look down on the gathering while the men eat. A good many boss busters are coming in not only to attend the banquet, but also the anti-Bailey pow-wow, which will be held in Security hall at i o'clock tomor row afternoon. The meeting will be for the purpose of working up enthusiasm in the fight on Gov. Bailey. E. W. Hoch will make a speech, but further than that no program is announced. "The fight is all over but the shouting," said J. N. Dolley this afternoon, "and this meeting tomorrow will be a sort of a shouting bee." CURTIS STOPS OFF. Congressman Is Working in Leavenworth Primary. Congressman Curtis was expected to reach Topeka from Washington today, but instead it is reported that he has gone to Leavenworth to counsel with his friends who are making a fight there for the soldiers' home. Mr. Curtis left Washington Tuesday to look after his congressional fences here and to attend the congressional convention at Holton next Tuesday. DEFENSE OPENS In the Case of A W. DSachen, Charged With Conspiracy. Washington, Jan. 28. When the trial of August W. Machen and others charged with conspiracy to defraud the government, was resumed today, Mr. Maddock made the opening argument for the defense. He explained how the Groff fasteners came to be invented and said that before it was patented a half interest in the patent was assigned to D. B. Groff. He also told how Dr. Lorenz paid $500 for a one-half interest in the entire patent and received there fore 50 per cent of the profits, the Groffs receiving 25 per cent each Taking up the indictment, Mr. Mad dock said he was prepared to prove thst the Groffs never offered the fastener for 75 cents. LOCAL MENTIOS. Mrs. Lizzie S. Sheldon, of Lawrence, is attending the State Bar association. The Golden Rule club will give a charity tea at the home of Mrs. F. E. Hughes. 309 .West Seventh, tomorrow afternoon. Born to Mr. and Mrs. H. W. Naylor. at 1317 Kansas avenue, an 11-pound boy this morning. HI Health Causes a Suicide. Arkansas City, Kas.. Jan. 28. J. R. Granger, a prominent farmer of south ern Kansas, killed himself at his home southeast of Arkansas City today by shooting. Ill health is the cause assigned. .III i :i 04i There is no use talking Our prices tell the story to wise buyers. You occasionally get cheap prices at some other stores, but you are not always satisfied with what you get. We make you cheap prices on good things, and we guarantee satisfaction. These prices only indicate what we have on a larger scale at our store 48-lb. sack Puritan Flour S1.00 48-lb. sack Tampa Flour $1.10. 3 sacks Corn Meal 25o 1 8-lb. sack Eagle, Pancake Flour 25c 1 family size package Soda Crackers 2Gd 1 gallon can N. Y. Apples 2 5o 1 gal. can Peeled Peaches.. 35c Young Pig Hams, 8 to 10 lbs. Per pound 12o California Hans, pound Breakfast Bacon, pound ..12o Dry Salt Pork, pound Fresh Shoulders, pound 8o Our own make Sausage, lb., 10o 8 bars "Woman's Friend Soap 25o 15 bars Ark Soap 25o We can native you lots of good prices if you will call at the store. Eckert Walker 612 Kansas Ave. Tele. 429. i Pure Water Phillips' famous mineral water delivered at your door pure and health ful PROF. J. W. PHILLIPS Proprietor. 612 West Eight Street. I kit A A AAA AA A. W. HOPSINS, Merchant Police. Private Work a Specialty Office and Residence 33a East 8th St. Topeka, Kansas Bell 'Phone 515. PRESERVING THE RECORD. "Can't you see that you are overloaded and that your horse can not draw the wagon up the grade?" said the kind hearted pedestrian to a driver who had been yelling at and whipping his horse for a cuarter of an hour. "That may be so," replied the driver as he held up. "Then what are you putting the whip ori for?" "Oh, that's a different matter. I've owned this horse for the last five years, and he's come to expect a licking every time he can't pull his load, and I'm not going to be mean enough to disappoint him. Get up, now, or I'll cut the hide oft you!" Alleged Boodlers Given Bail. Kansas City, Mo., Jan. 28. Chris Kopp and Charles M. Bowles, under indict ment charged with boodling, each gave bail today hi the sum of $1,500. Xo date for the trials has been set. Harry Behr Released. Louisville, Ky., Jan. 28. Harry Behr, who was arrested yesterday as a sus pect in the Schaefer murder case, was released today upon assurance from the chief of police of Memphis that Behr knew nothing of the crime. Big Ship Aground, Atlantic City, Jan. 28. The Brignnte life saving station reports at 3 o'clock this afternoon an unknown full rigged ship went on Brigante shoalR. The ship was bound north in tow of a tug. DEATHS AND FUNERALS. J. E. Thompson, a section foreman on the Santa Fe at Sibley, Mo., was fatal ly injured there Wednesday morning and died Wednesday night in the Santa Fe hospital in Topeka where he was brought for care. Thompson was 21 years of age. His injury was received while he was engaged in clearing up a wreck near Sibley Wednesday fore noon. The unexpected movement of a car at which the men were working wrenched from his grasp a crow bar and dealt him a blow across the face, crushing the skull. The body was sent home today for burial. A. J. Musgrove, for many years known in Topeka as a veterinary sur geon, died at his home two miles south of town on January 26, aged 72 years. Heart failure is given as the cause of his death. The funeral waa held at 1 p. m. today, interment being made in the Foster cemetery. The funeral of Robert McBride.who die4 at the county poor farm, will be held at 10 a. m. Sunday from the DeMoss Pen well undertaking rooms. It will be in charge of the local Horse Shoers' union. The burial will be made in Rochester cemetery. Inez Forte (colored), aged 24 years, difi at 10:45 Wednesday at her heme at 11S North Madison Btreet. The funeral will be held from the B Street Baptist churca at 2 p. in. Saturday. dry.

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IV J v 4 4 WHERE IS UOSUSSFi fiWill Absolutely Pure OW IS A MATTER OF HEALTH IMMEDIATE WAR. Declaration to Follow Promptly on Russia's lleply If It Prote Unsatisfactory to the Japanese. IS EXPECTED MONDAY. Russian Government Again Has Been Asked to Hurry. The Mikado Will Subscribe to the Nation's War Loan. Toklo, Jan. 23. It is anticipated that the answer of Russia to Japan's latest note will reach Tokio not later than next Monday. Besides the intimation conveyed to Baron Ie Rosen, the Rus sian minister at this canital. that an early reply was desired. Minister Ku rino, at St. Petersburg, called on For eign Minister Lamsdorff and politely requested a response. Count LamsdorfE promised that the reply of his govern ment would be delivered within a few days. It is reported that the Russian imperial council will discuss the ques tions involved before the czar today, and if an immediate decision is reached the note may arrive in Tokio on gatur d Russia's response is eagerly awaited, and if it should prove unsatisfactory to Japan an immediate declaration of 1 war seems unavoidable. The Japanese feel that the entire responsibility for the outcome rests with Russia. Some doubt is expressed that Russia properly appreciates the determination and temper of the Japanese people, and it seems incredible that Karon le Rosen has failed to correctly inform the erov trnment at St. Petersburg of the situ ation. Japan is busy perfecting a financial programme. The announced plan to Issue bonds and increase taxation meets with popular approval, but some ob jections have been made to the pro posed method of procedure as well as to the redemption plan. It is expected that the final details will be settled Katsura and the other mem bers of the Japanese cabinet will enter tain at dinner tonight a number of prominent bankers of the empire who have srathered at the capital to discuss the financial situation and assist in perfecting the government's pro gramme. Tomorrow the premier and cabinet will pive a dinner to a groun of minor financiers, and President Mat suwo of the Rank of Japan will give a banquet to the visiting bankers, at which Matsukata and Inou, former ministers of finance, will deliver ad dresses. The Marquis lto, Matsukata and (ieneral Yamagat, members of the imperial household finance council, had an audience with the emperor today at which it was decided that the imnurial household should subscribe to the erov eroment's emergency bonds should they be issued. It was undecided, how ever, what action should be taken. This will make the emperor a personal sub scriber to the proposed bonds. The government is receiving "many offers for the bonds, and it is expected that the issue will be oversubscribed several times. JAPAN BITTING CATTLE. Manila, Jan. 28. The Japanese gov ernment is buying cattle in the Philip pine islands. MORE WARLIKE. Paris, Jan. 2S. United States Am bassador Porter had another lengthy talk with Foreign Minister Delcasse to day, going over the latest phases of the Russian-Japanese discussion. M. Nidliotf, the Russian ambassador, and Prince von Randolin, the ambassador of Germany, called at r.bout the same time. The former firmly believes the czar's Influence will lead to a pacific adjustment, but other officials of the embassy do not share the ambassador's nk Wfc Wa 'All V MB. M u y u y y For Internal and External Use. Cur.s and prevents colds,, coughs, sort throat. Influenza, bronchitis, pneumonia, swelling of the Joints, lumbago, inflam mations, rheumatism, neuralgia, headache toothache, asthma, difficult breathing. 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Prince von Randolin, who was sta tioned at St. Petersburg for a, long time and who is familiar with court influences, considers that the war ele ment is likely to get the upper hand. Government opinion here remains un changed, the officials holding that the situation is more Warlike, but that it has not passed beyond the chance of diplomatic adjustment. It can be asserted positively that France shares the view of the United States, British and other governments, that no joint mediation is desirable, as it probably would irritate the situation, but that each power should use Its in fluence through its own diplomatic channels towards the maintenance of peace. THE JUDGE'S TOOTHACHE. One morning on the cattle range the Judge rolled out of his blankets with a jumping toothache, and though he ex hausted all the remedies In camp noth ing had any effect. It was forty miles to the nearest town, with the chances against finding a dentist there, and it was finally decided to appeal to one of the cowboys on his station five miles away. He came over in response to the message, and after taking a look at t-he tooth, which was a double one on the upner jaw, he said: "Jedge. I kin shoot that tosth out as slick as grease if you don't mind the sea.'- it will leave on yer cheek." 'Shoot it out?" shouted the Judge at the top of his voice. "Why, man, you must be crazy!" "Wall, then ,mebbe I kin pick in 'nuft powder to blow it out." "Biow it out? Never!" "Might possibly hammer it out with a piece of iron." mused the cowboy. "And you might go to Texas and beyond!" exclaimed the indignant suffer-. "Yes, that's ginerally the way with folks. I'm only tellin' you how we do it out here, but if you don't want the tooth out. of course j'ou'li have to stand the pain." The cowboy started back for his station, but after a gallop of half a mile he returned to beckon the rest of us aside and say: "The Judge seems to e a purty squar' sort o' man, though a leetle teachy, and I'm sorry for him. Kin he sit on a hoss?" "Some of the time." "Kin he shoot?" "Only now and then." "Then I think I can cure that tooth ache." He spent five minutes unfolding the plot, and then went over to the sufferer and said: "Jedge, I've come back to say that ye are a booby and a coward!" '"What!" yelled the Judge, a s he sprang up from his seat before the campiire. "A booby, a coward and a squaw, Jedge, and likewise a durned old liar!" The Judge jumped for him, but the cowboy ran for his horse. There was another near at hand, with two guns in the holsters of the saddle, and the Judge sprang into the saddle and gave chase. Half a mile out on the prairie the two men began to shoot at each other, and it was not until the Judge had fired his twelfth bullet that the kind-hearted cowboy rode away and left his enemy to ride into camp and declare: "Well, by thunder if that infernal toothache hasn't stopped so dead still that I feel just like singing!" M. Quad. THE MULE, WENT DEAD. "Speaking about mewls." said the Ar kansas squatter as he held his corncob pipe with one hand and brushed away at the mosquitoes with the other, "but I ex pected to make my fortun' outer the pes ky critters once. It wasn't in buyin' an' sellin', but I'm the man who invented the way to stop a mewl from brayin'." When asked to explain, he said: "Why, it was as easy- as shucks. I happened to notice one day that my old mewl lifted his tail jest befo' he brayed, and so I tied a six pound brick to it. It stopped his voice to once, but arterhalt a day that critter begun to show that his fcclin's was hurt. He jest stood and looked down at the ground in a lonesome homesick way, and now and then when he turned his eyes on me I could see tears in 'em. The old woman thought that shettin' off his bray so sudden might gin him the colic or suthin', but I was determined to hang right to it. "I put him in the shed and kept the brick to his tail, and things was so quiet that day that we almost got skeered. N'ext day the eritter got ugly and ornery. He was bo'n to bray, and he wanted to hear the sound of his own voice mighty bad. He wasn't gwine to lose it without a fout, eith-r, and fur five or six hours he made a big rumpus. It wasn't no use, though. He couldn't bray without liftin' his tail, and no mewl kin lift his tail with a six pound brick tied to the end f it. When that varmint finally gin u;j his heart was done broke, and on the third mawnin' we found him dead and cold in the shed. It was a right smart ideah o' mine, but :o' see it had a mewl tied to it, and I'm tellin' yo' that when yo' in vent anythin' connected with a dratted hvbrid yo' ar' gwine to git busted as suah us vo' ar' bo'n into this sinful world." II. 'Quad. Whittemore Enters Denial. A report was made to the board ot health that a young man named Brown, who was supposed to be a student at the high school, had been taken sick with measles and that he had been in the school several days after the oruD tion appeared. L. D. Whittemore, principal of the h!:rh school, said today that he knew of no such case and that no scholar by the name of Brown was sick or absent from school. Mr. Whit temore said there was no foundation for the rumor. ANY ARE THERE Midwinter Exposition Is Draw ing Large Crowds. Four Thousand Paid Admission Is Wednesday's Record. MARSHALL WAS THERE Topeka's Famous Hand Furnish ed the Music. Amusement Features AreProy ing Yery Popular. A total attendance of about 4,000 peo ple visited the Kansas Midwinter ex position at the Auditorium Wednesday. This attendance was slightly above that of the third day of the exposition a year ago. The attendance of the open ing days of the exposition augurs well for the succeeding attendance and the indications are for a much better pay ing show than that of last year, which considerably more than paid expenses. No criticism has been offered for the amusement features of the exposition. The performance given by the two Hewitts and their dog is one of the best vaudeville stunts ever shown in Topeka. As the closing act of this performance Dan, the trained poodle dog, ascejids to the top of a high ladder and leaps into the arms of his master. After receiving the applause of the audience he scam pers off the stage in evident satisfac tion at being done with the performance. Up to date the total attendance at the exposition has numbered about 6,000. Marshall's band furnished the music last night, playing through the perform ance and at intervals both before and afterward. Crosby Brothers. Almost a miracle of attractive decor ation has been performed in the ar rangement of the display by Crosby Bros, where six booth spaces have been thrown into four apartments near the main entrance of the Auditorium. With the purpose of securing an imposing display of the furniture handled by that large department store, the firm has secured space on both sides of the aisle leading to the north from the front door of the building. Upon this space has been erected a reproduction of a home and within its arched en trances are shown the various living rooms of a modern dwelling, each fur nished with the most exacting taste. If for no other purpose the observant person devotes considerable time to this display with the object of acquir ing ideas upon the effective selection and arrangement of the appointments of his own habitation. It has been demonstrated by Topeka people that nowhere can household furniture be purchased from more se lect stocks or at better prices than at the Crosby Bros, store. And from the choicest of this immense stock has the firm's special decorator, Mr. O. Lang hanke selected the material for his work in the Midwinter exposition. As is desirable, in parlor or drawing room furnishings the arrangement of the furniture in this department of the booth is exceedingly simple, but the el Mr. Hoch Finds That He Has a Slight Handicap in HIa Race for Governor. egance of its taste charms the visitor on the instant. But six pieces compose the set. These are In mahogany in del ciate tapestry designs of silk. Separa ted by a short aisle leading: from the parlor is the bed room. The bed room as are the other rooms, is richly paper ed and carpeted. A canopy bed of the style of Louis the XIV occupies the center of the room. This is of solii mahogany as is the other furniture shown in the room. At one side stands a handsome dresser, with a broad plate mirror, while on the other is a chif fonier and a cheval mirror. On the dresser and chiffonier are scattered the various articles pertaining to the toilet. In the dining room golden oak has been selected for the furnishing and makes a contrast with the darker hues prevailing in the bed room and parlor. In this room are the side board, chairs and china closet necessary to the com pleteness of a dining room, all in gold en cak. The polished floor is spread with Oriental rugs. A leather couch, two large leather covered chairs, a li brary table and a book case crowded with books give an inkling of what comfort in the library bf a modern home ought to be. This room is divided from the dining room by handsome portieres. In its completeness the Crosby ex hibit certainly surpasses all others in the Exposition hall and it is little oc casion for remark that it has proven to be one of the most popular. Important Creamery Exhibit. The John Deere Plow company is ex hibiting the Sharpies creamery sepa rator. The Sharpies machine is a model of simplicity. The different parts are made from the strongest and best material to be secured, and this with their improved inventions makes the machine the most successful on the market. A clever advertising booklet exnlains the dairy business and the ad vantages of the different parts of the mechanism of the bharnies separator. The No. 6 Sharpies tubular separator bowl is but 2i Inches in diameter. It skims milk at the rate of 650 Bounds per hour, leaving not over .01 per cent, of butter fat. If properly handled it can be made to remove absolutely every particle of butter fat from the skimmed milk. One reason for this efficiency is that the speed of the bowl Is lower than any other hand separator while the revolutions are higher. The John Deere Flow company Is sell ing most of the separators to the agri cultural dealers for distribution to the farmers. Peter Heil Son, of Topeka. are the local agents. E. W. Curtis, the representative of the John Deere Plow company, is here demonstrating the machines. The booth is near the end of the dairy row. Im portant Doints on creamery separators are gladly explained to all visitors. Kistler-Motzler Wholesale Grocery Co Fresh hot coffee served In dainty china has made the Kistler-Metzler company's booth a popular one. This enterprising firm has seized an excellent opportunity of introducing to the pub lic a new brand of coffee, Tun-Ja. After long experiments their Mokaska mills of St. Joe have succeeded in pre paring the coffee berry in a manner by which the undesirable and injurious portions are removed while the flavor and aroma of the beverage are pre served. The coffee berry is cut into small cubes while It is yet green. The coarse outside husk of the berry, which contains nothing essential to coffee making, and carries a consid erable amount of Impurities, and the inner kernel which possesses the in jurious elements which affect the nerves of coffee users, are extracted. By a complicated process the coffee is handled rapidly and, after .roasting, is carefully sealed in order that none of its proper MR. HOCH'S HEAVY LOAD. ties may be lost. In the Tun-Ja brand only the best of Java and Mocha coffees are used. The manufacturers have spared no pains in getting the very cream of material. The Kistler-Metzler "Wholesale Gro cery company are most progressive. They are exclusive agents for a great many brands of fine coffees. Samples are served of their Palace Car brand of canned goods which receive much fa vorable comment from visitors. The courtesy of Mr. Nichols and his assist ants is in no small measure responsible for the popularity of the exhibit. TWO FOR ROOSEVELT. Fifth Missouri District Conren tion Instructs Its Delegates. Kansas City, Mo.. Jan. 28. The Re publican convention of the Fifth Mis souri district today elected two dele gates and two alternates to the national convention at Chicago, and instructed them to "vote and use all honorable means to secure the nomination of Theodore Roosevelt for president; also to support Cyrus P. Walbridge, of St. Louis, for vice president." The delegates selected were Joseph Harris, postmaster, and Wallace Love, both of Kansas City: the alternates. William H. Waggoner, of Independence, and Joseph P. Fontion, of Kansas City. Major William .Warner, U. S. attor ney, of Kansas City, was temporary and permanent chairman. His address endorsing President Roosevelt was warmly received. Homer B. Mann, for merly an adherent of Richard C. Ker ens, national committeeman from Mis souri, who it had been announced might oppose President Roosevelt, was made chairman of the resolutions com mittee. The resolution presented by him. which endorsed the administration of President Roosevelt and praised his administration, was received with great enthusiasm and passed unanimously. WRIT ISKEFUSED. Supreme Court. Declines to Interfere With Lower Court Helena, Mont., Jan. 28. The supreme court has refused to issue an order di recting Judge Harney of the district court to show cause why the prohibi tive writ issued against the board of aldermen of Butte to prevent them from taking action against Mayor Mul lins for malfeasance in office should not be annulled. The grounds of the refusal are the supreme court can not antioipate the action of the district court, whether It would be dilatory and adverse, as charged. The matter was brought into court by Bernard Noon, who is the choice Of the Butte council for the office of city attorney, but whose election has never been confirmed by the mayor. The members of the council have charged Mayor Mullins with malfeas ance, alleging that he accepted money illegally from gamblers. Attorney Noon asserts that Judge Harney interfered with such action by issuing a prohibi tive writ and that now the hearing Is being delayed in the district court. Vegetables Are High. New' York, Jan. 28. Vegetarians here are having an expensive season in sup plying themselves with food. All kinds of green vegetables are high In price and scarce in quantity owing to the long continued cold, and people in ordi nary circumstances have been compell ed to fall back on canned goods. Spin ach costs about as much as mush rooms do ordinarily. Lettuce is 15 cent3 fWith Apologies to Albert EeidU) argain Friday Jg&t in Boys' Dept. Everything in Boys' Wear at Bovs' heavy web soo Suspenders Friday V 7 to $4.00 and $5.00 Boys' long Overcoats and double breasted knee pant J" A suits latest styles and all Z..MI wool-Friday a head while celery, peas, beans and strawberries, all of which generally are plentiful in the markets are now al most unobtainable. Eggs of the ordi nary quality, not strictly fresh, are bringing 50 and 60 cents a dozen. Dea lers say no fresh supplies whatever are coming in. AUTOMATIC SPRINKLER. One Has Been Given a Test in the City of Chicago. Chicago, Jan. 2S, An automatic sprinkler system in which the flow of water is controlled electrically has been given a test here. It was devised by a young Chicago plumber. The expansion by heat of a metal strip closes an elec tric circuit and causes a current to flow through the coils of an electric magnet which is part of the valve mechanism. An iron plunger, which closes the valve opening and is held in place by the wa ter pressure is attracted by the tem porary magnetism and water flows through the sprinklers. When the met al strip cools it opens the circuit and the operation is reversed, turning off the water. The current while flowing also rings an alarm. POOR FUND IS MERGED. Will All Be Paid from County Gener al Fund. The board of county commissioners have ordered that the $12,280.50 in the Shawnee county poor fund be turned into the general revenue fund. By combining the two funds the board will have some money from the poor fund to use for general purposes. All expenses for the poor farm and for the care of destitute poor will be drawn from the general revenue fund. LUCAS KEEPS TRACK. Excuses Made by People Who Don't Pay Taxes. Sheriff Lucas is keeping a record, in his mind, of the excuses offered by de linquent tax payers who are called upon by the sheriff to pay their per sonal property tax for 1903. Some of the well to do people put up the plea that they really haven't near the amount of personal property that the assessors enumerated and that fur thermore what they have is not worth, much. Others say that the assessors made a great mistake and assessed neighbors with twice as much personal (9 JANUARY 30 Saturday Matinee and Night JANUARY 30 Triumphant Return of the People's Comedian, the Funny Man of Wrong Mr. Wright, si H W1 A LJ Vtlri Li LI Beresford it en of the funniest comedians that visit Topeka. Dally Capital. First Time Here in J. M. Barrie's Masterpiece, The Professor's Love Stor By author of The Little Minister, Quality Street, The Admirable Crichton, etc. The Sweetest Love Story Offered Here Since When We Were Twenty-One. NIGHT Boxes and Floor SI; Bal 75, 50c; 2nd Bal 35, 25e MATINEE Floor 50c; Bal. 35; 2nd Bal. 25c. For both performances seats now selling at Rowley Snow's. 8:15 TONIGHT 815 First Time Here cf the Great Success THE PARISH PRIEST W. TV. Bittner and a Strong Cast. Prices: 15, 25, 35, 50, 75c. Seats selling. Sunday Night, January jr. A Play That Touches the Heart THE C0NYICTS DAUGHTER Greatest Melodrama of the Day, Note Prices: 15, 25, 35, 50c Seats Friday. 709-711 Kansas Avenue. Less than Wholesale Price. Boys' 50c, 69c Shirts and Waists the shirts of per cale and madras collars attached, also bl'k r sateens the waists of madras in blouse and f d i x.': j.... xiutKi&ii garai, vmgcku.i riiuajr wl..,. Child's Merino Sweaters, 3 to 6 years blue, J pjf. red and royal colors, 50c sweaters Friday.... Xvlt Boys' $1.50 all wool, honey comb and pure C ff worsted sweaters, ages 3 to 14, Friday P JJ nr. Boys 35c Silk Bow Ties ef. V" in all colors Friday 3W Boys Blue Cheviot and Plush Winter Caps IF. 50c values, all sizes, Friday lOW Girl's Tams in grey, blue and fancy stripe3 ir?- were 50c Friday ltJL 500 pair Boys' warm knee Pants, in blue and striped cheviots, worth 50c Friday Jl 50 Boys' warm Chinchilla Reefers, plaid cassimere lining, storm or velvet collar, age3 3 to 14; ffp $1.50 reefers for vJV, Boys' heavy double-breasted suits, ages eg AtZ to 14, were $2.50 Friday 4I.tJ Boys' long Pant Suits in dark and fancy cassimere, &J A J" ages 14 to 19, $7.50 values Friday property -nly half as much as they as sessed him, the delinquent, who han't any furniture to speak of but a few broken down chairs. Others put up the plea that they haven't the money with which to pay. But they all have to pay the hard hearted sheriff who doea not pay much attention to the excuses A CASE TO WONDER OYER. 'I had just gone home from my sev enth trip abroad." said the tourist, "when one night I found myself in a village grocery with a dozen sitters. They were all strangers to me, but when something was said to give me an opening, of course I was ass enough to go ahead. When I had stopped for brea th, the village cooper picked me up and asked: 'Yas, that's all right about Turup, but how many teeth has a cow?' 'I can't say.' 'What's the object In having1 front wheels of a wagon the smallest T' 'I give it up.' 'How long does it take a chicken to hatch?' 'I never knew." 'Which end does a horse Et up on first?' 'I I never watched." "The old man and the crowd turned from me in contempt," said the tourist, "and feeling at least a foot shorter than when I went in, I edged for the door. My questioner had something in reserve, however. As I reached the door he called: 'Wall, stranger, mebbe you wasn't so much to blame for goin' to Tump, bein' ye had the time and money, but fur the next year or two I'll be won derin' why on airth you didn't stay over there the rest o' yer days!' M. Quad. "The woman who throws herself at a man's head." said the girl who liked to say smart things, "is more likely to land at his feet." "Of course," replied the Great Brute; "there never was a woman who could throw straight." Philadelphia Ledger. "Why do you tMnk it a case of real love?" "Because she refrains from the use of face powder whenever she is expecting him to call." Chicago Post. "Oh, I'm bo relieved." she said, aftr reading the telegram which her husband had sent her from home. "I seamed to have a premonition when the messenger said it was for me that it would say our maid had left us. But it's nothing-. The babv fell down stairs this morning and broke her arm. That's all." Chicago Record Herald. Third Annual Star ring Tour and Third Appearance in Topeka of "THAT ODD FEL LOW." Man. Tues. Wed. Feb. I, z, 3. Breckenridge Stock Co. Opening with Ladies free In the new Military NFRRA.SKA Comedy Drama ll-OIforVf. Prices: 10, 20, 30, 50c, Seats Friday. Thursday Night, Feb. 4. The Landslide of Laughter YON YONSON Nels Eriekson, of Kullagunnarstop, as YON. Prices': 15, 25, 35, 50, 75c. Seats Thrs. ii V mm Vr -d

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6 TOPEKA STATE JOTJRKAI THURSDAY EVENING. J ACTUARY 2S; 1904. KITS STRAIGHT. GoTernor Cummins, of Iowa, Denounces the Trusts. Likens Their Organization to One to Inrade White House. PROTECT THE WEAK. Government's Purpose to Set a Limit to Injustice. Says Labor Unions Maj Also Go Too Far. "It is just as intolerable for a body of men to organize a corporation to mon opolize transportation as it would be to organize an army to drive Theodore Roosevelt from the White House and install J. Pierpont Morgan in his stead. The latter would be treason the former ought to be a crime." This Is a declaration made by Gover nor Cummins of Iowa last night before the Kansas State Bar association in de livering the address which is the feature of this year's meeting of the lawyers of Kansas. "The government is created for no other purpose," he declared, "than that a man may do what, according to the civilization of the age, he may lawfully do; to preserve the common welfare, and to set a limit to the injustice which the weak may inflict upon the strong. "It is Just as hostile to the common good, continued Governor Cummins, "to promote an industrial association, like the United States Steel corporation, with its millions of worthless stocks, its ruthless methods of business, and its obvious effort to suppress competition, as it would be for the same men to shoulder their rifles and pillage the homes and the treasures of the people. For the latter they would be consigned to the penitentiary. The former merits no less penalty. "For labor unions, or those who gather In sympathy with labor unions, to ter rorize honest men who want to work, Intimidate innocent tradesmen who de sire to sell to all who want to buy, and prevent by force legitimate industry, is no better than revolution, and is an un pardonable offense against the millions of men and women who depend for their livelihood and their happiness upon the ordinary arid continuous conduct of at fairs. "For employers to enter into solemn compact to destroy labor associations by refusing their members employment Bimply because they are such members, Is to run up the pirate's flag upon the sea of commerce. And in this fight without quarter the innocent as well as the guilty must perish." Governor Cummins' subject was "The Rights of Man." He said he believes the time has come to lay down new laws regarding these rights. In the light of modern advancement and civil ization. The entire address was along the line of the conflict between labor and capital and the speaker expressed the belief that the government should control both the labor unions and the combinations of employers for the pro tection of the weak against the strong and for the common welfare of all. "Lawyers." he said.- "understand that men are not made for constitutions and laws, but that constitutions and laws are made for men, and that, therefore, as men develop, laws must change, as new phases of humanity appear, new regulations to direct and control them must appear also. They have always taken the first step forward; theirs is the voice most potent in every reform; theirs the hand that has molded new ideals, and theirs the leadership which has inspired the minds of the people with confidence in the safety of the paths that are but dimly seen through the mists of the days to come. In the highest and truest sense tht-y are the radicals of the world. With this view of the profession, the members of which I address and to which I have the honor to belong, it is not necessary for me to apologize for proposing a reinvestiga tion of some of the rights of man. TIME TO REVISE. "To an extent, we are constantly re examining the subject, but I invite you to a more thorough going review of certain phases of society, which, in their full maturity, are of recent de velopment. We go quietly along for years, adding a little here, taking away a little there, straining old theories now and then to fit new conditions, and we do fairly well; but once in a while, as the history of mankind clear ly teaches, mere precedent becomes so obviously inadequate to deal with the situation, that we are compelled to re open the whole subject and ascertain what the rights of man are under the new conditions which have arisen. "I believe that we have entered a period of that. character, and that thoughtful and patriotic men every where are intent upon a better under standing of what men may do and what they may not do under free in stitutions. The lawyers of the country must bear the burden of this investi- f ration. They must in the futura. as n the past, do more than other men can do in ascertaining the points at which the government must touch and restrain its subjects, and in redrawing, so that it may be more clearly ob served, the circle of individual liberty. "When our government was organized the overpowering concern of its fram rs was to protect the individual from the aggression of the government it self. The common law prescribed with sufficient clearness the rights of men e.s between themselves. The thought that voluntarv associations of the members of societv could seriously in terfere with the liberty of the individ ual or the peace and good order of the community, was not prominently pres sent In the minds of the lawyers and the statesmen of that time. Partner ships, religious, benevolent and charit able associations and corporations were Indeed known, but they had not risen to that height or grown to that breadth to bring pressure upon the very frame work of society. MODERN COMBINATIONS. "With this suggestion, I awaken your memories to the marvelous transforma tion of the last centurv. It would be as futile as it is unnecessary for me to attempt to describe the changes which a hundred years have witnessed changes not only in material thinss and respecting physical development, but ethical changes as well. I go di rectly to the point when I declare that at the sresent moment business is car ried on. In great measure, by aggrega tions of men, having: a common obiect, a common interest, and controlled by chosen representatives, few in number, to the end that, insofar as practicable, the clash of honest judgment may be avoided, and the effect of competition overcome. The men who work for wages in many of the most important industries are banded together so that they move under a single will and bring to bear upon their employer the Tsited force of great companies of pas gitriata and determined souls a force that is employed, not only for their own immediate welfare, but for the general good of wage-workers through out the country. Millions of men are thus held together sympathetically, and they are able to disturb the tranquil lity, comfort and prosperity of all the peoDle. "Not to be outdone, and as they un doubtedly believe, for their own safety, the employers, who, taken alone are al ready in aggregation, find it essential to combine from the Atlantic to the Pacific, with the avowed purpose of annihiliating labor unions. Monopolies are established and unfair and tryan nous practices are pursued by the busi ness associations. Strikes, riots and boycotts become the Instruments of the labor unions, and lockouts and black lists are the weapons of retaliation which flash here and there in the hands of the employers' combination. A SHOT AT HANNA'S POLICY. "There are some hopeful and sangu ine 'stand patters' who believe that all we need to meet these conditions, which are as natural as they are new, is the mediation of a few civic federations and a few apostles crying throughout the land, 'Peace on earth and .good will to men.' I am not one of them. I believe it is the duty of the govern ment to define what men may lawfully do in association, and that done, should enforce the definition with all the pow er at its command. The government is created for no other purpose than that a man may do what, according to the civilization of the age, he may lawfully do, to preserve the common welfare, and to set a limit to the in justice which the strong may inflict upon the week." Governor Cummins then made the de clarations quoted above. "Is it not time that we should look again Into the rights of man?" he ask ed. "Is it not the duty of the government to declare in an effectual way what as sociations of citizens may lawfully be made, what they may associate to do, and what their powers and privileges shall be? We cannot afford, if free and orderly institutions are to remain to guard these associations wlth an army. THE LABOR UNIONS. "Inasmuch as the labor union is a prominent type of voluntary associa tion, I take it for illustration. Let it be understood first that I believe in labor organizations. I believe they have an honorable and an honest pur pose. Not only so, but they are a nec essary factor in the problems of our day. They have accomplished vast good for themselves, and for the citi zenship of our common country. They have lifted up the manhood of those who work with their hands, and they have made it more certain that the rank and file of the nation will always be equal to the duties which a free government exacts of its people. They have planted ambition in hearts that had no hope, and have increased the esteem in which the world holds honest toil. They have' added to the dignity of wage workers and have lessened the distance which caste measures Detween the rich and the poor. "So much, and much more, of good have they brought to themselves, and their fellowmen; but if they declare that when an employer wants to hire a workman, that he must hire one of their number, they invade the rights of man, and they usurp the function of organized society. The government, speaking as the voice of all the people, might, if it were deemed for the public good, declare who should be employed, and who should not, but for any lesser association than the government to so declare is a violation of the most sa cred and inalienable rights of man. When thev pronounce the ban against a tradesman and prevent, through the force of conspiracy, the transaction of business which may lawtuuy ne car ried on, they rre again exercising a power which only the government can wield, and even there -it is a doubtful prerogative. "I do not speak of the forcible In terference oftentimes seen in the idle mob which follows cessation from work, because that is already condemned by the law: nor do I speak of many other things which would fall naturally into the train of thought 1 am pursuing. What I have said is sufficient for the conclusion I desire to impress uponyou. It is this: The law should provide for the creation of labor associations. It should trace the scope of labor unions, should define the powers which they may exercise, and the privileges which they may enjoy. GOVERNMENT CONTROL. "Tt should prescribe the conditions under which strikes may occur, so that the public may be protected from their consequences, and should ordain penal ties that would restrain violations of the law. I urge this, not with a view of a guaranty for the performance of contracts which may be made. I urge it fnr the sake of rjeace. so that when the union is within its rights under the law. it may have the sympathy of ail imod citizens, and when it is beyond those rights, that it may rest under the condemnation of all who believe in the law. I urge it because there Is no other wav of nreventmg the constant coi lision between forces in society so for midable that when tney meet in an tagonism. the shock is greater than we can saferv bare. "What has been said with respect to labor organizations, applies with equal force to employers' associations. What the employe may lawfully do, the em ployer must not organize to preem, nnrt when he does enter into associa tion, let it be under the law, with, its objects avowed and its purposes stated. "T understand perfectly that the strug gle between the man who pays wages and the man who receives wages is a perpetual one. Its origin was with the beginning of labor, and its end will be with the last trump. In pome periods and with some people slavery has been its outcome and war and revolution have often accompanied the controversy. But if there must be either master or slave in our country, the hope that we have so fondly indulged is destroyed, and the fairest experiment ever tried in the history of man has come to naugnt If it must be attended with force that of the law, then our vaunted civilization is no better than that of the remote past. WHAT IT WILL COME TO. "A moment's consideration from an other point of view will add to your conviction that all associations, whether of employes or employers, which are to be the factors in the controversy to which I have referred must hold their authority for existence from the law. If employers are successful in establishing a combination throughout the land, so that they act in perfect concord, then competition among them for labor will cease, and selfish, arbitrary conclusions will be substituted for the composite re sults of competition. If on the other hand, labor unions are successful in drawing into their societies all. or prac tically all the wage workers, then com petition will likewise cease, ana they may demand what self-respect alone prompts for the labor which they per form, and the conditions under which they perform it. "This situation, and it is one to which we are tending, is war. and out of the war will come the master and the ser vant. Competition is the fundamental law of our lives. Its severities, its harshness ami its cruelties may be ameliorated a little here anil mitigated a little there by arrangemer.ts which do not impair its sub stantial force, but when we eliminate it from social and industrial affairs. we have then no recourse but absolute socialism Tell me, if you can, what law fixes the compensation of any man. when competi tion is overthrown. Ten me wny it is mat one man is able to demand and secure $50 a day for his work, and another must be content with $2. Your answer to these questions will uncover the whole philos ophy of industry. if any body ot men, so large ana po tential that it is able by its mandate to fix either wages or the value of a com modity, comes into existence, it follows as surely as the unerring and inevitable laws of nature that the government it self must either disband or restrict the association which has seized a power so vital, cr it must assume or exercise the power itself." Gov. Cummins advocated an amend ment to the federal constitution to re quire all corporations doing a general business throughout tne united atates io have a federal charter. VERDICT, SUICIDE. (Continued from First Page.) the names of many men high in Great Britain, was the London and Globe Finance corporation. This company was formed. Wright said, to control and operate minor com panies, all of which he said had been paying enormous dividends. He began his promotions In a small way, first with one or two mining enterprises, capitalized at a few hundred thousand dollars. Many of them were all they purported to be and mada fortunes for those who invested In them. His projects grew with his ambitions, and finally he conceived the London and Globe Finance corporation. Lord Dufferm was made chairman of the board of directors, and other directors, besides Wright, were Lieut. Gen. the Hon. Somerset J. Gough-Calthorpe, colonel-in-chief of the Fifth Dragoon guards; Lord Edward William Pelham Clinton. master of the queen's house hold; Lord Loch, and Sir William Robinson- The names of these persons were con spicuous in the prospectus of the corpo ration and served as bait for investors. Their confidence in Wright was abso lute ana into his hands they clacea everything. Forty-one different enterprises were taken into the London and Globe by the now well known process of giving the owners two shares in the new con cern for each share they held in the old .and frequently a cash bonus beside. The capitalization of the subsidiary companies was enormous, the total being about $110,000,000. Two reasons for the wreck are given. One is Wright's and the other the one generally accepted in the financial world. Wright claimed that all shareholders had taken out profits in excess of their investments when the crash came, and that it was precipitated by treachery, one mine he was depending upon to pay $600,000 a month proving a poor one and not up to the reports of the experts, who betrayed him. The other version is that the London and Gloe took up the Baker steel and Waterloo underground with a capital of $11,925,000. It was not a good invest ment. London investors could not get close enough to it to see it. It was paraded as valuable, like all other as sets. It was doubted, and thus the oth ers were, and inquiries followed. Lord Duffenn, the president, tried to explain and realized he knew nothing of affairs. Every line of inquiry led back to Wright. A receiver -was asked for ana then 14 brokerage firms 4n London went to the wali. London and Globe was value less end the shares a drug on the mar ket. Wright, after pleading for a chance to set things to order again, was charged by stockholders with fraud. Lord Dufferin died shortly after a ruined man and then parliament was called upon to do something. Parlia ment and the law courts were in con flict and all sorts of rumors of royal influence were circulated. It was known that King Edward, while prince of Wales, had been a guest on board Wright's yacht. That was mada to do great service in the rumors. It was even said Wright had loaned or given the Prince of Wales and others large sums of money., Then Wright fled to tne united States, where he was known in all the financial centers. When he landed he was arrested, and eventually was taken back to England for trial. It is said in justification of Wright that for a while some of his companies did yield enormous sums to the Inves tors and that disasters came from over capitalization and from absorbing Into the big concern many that were worth less. A BIG SALE SATURDAY. A Remarkable Opportunity for 8hopper. The greatest sale of Ladies' Furnishings, skirts, suits, waists, un dermuslins, hemstitched linen pieces, corsets, ribbons, notions, children's dresses, infants and children s coats, wrappers, petticoats, towels, handker chiefs, underwear, hosiery, jewelry, dress sacques, golf gloves, umbrellas, perfumes, purses and chatelaeines, bask ets, furs, neckware, jaraeniers, nne china and cutglass. Will begin Satur day morning at 8 o'clock, when we will place on sale the entire stock known as Mrs. L. K. Brown, 603 Kansas avenue, at less than half price. Ten thousand dollars worth of the most reliable and high grade goods at less than half price. This sale is unique in the annals as retailing, we doubt if anything like it has ever been known. The full strength and importance of this event can only be appreciated by reading the details which follow: Mrs. L. K. Brown, who has run a first-class ladies' furnishing goods store for the past two years, will close out the business by February 10, and will then close her doors forever. This stock is one of the cleanest and finest and most remarkable high grade mer chandise ever gathered under one roof in this city. This store is stocked from top to bottom and the basement is crowded full. Remember this entire stock is absolutely new, is bright, fresh and perfect, as the day it left the fac tories. It is one of the best selected stocks in the city, and is closing out sale of the cutting and slashing of prices will commence Saturday morn ing at 8 a. m., in order to close out this immense stock in seven retail days. This is enough to supply not only your present, but your future needs, at a tremendous saving, the whole pencil of the calculation has gone over every item and marked for a quick and absolute clearance. This is no scheme to holding sale, but a gen uine bona fide closing out sale, and but seven shopping days remain in which to take advantage of the past. We have employed twenty-three ex perienced salesladies to wait upon the crowds. All goods piled out and mark ed in plain figures at closing out sale prices. Watch tomorrow evening's State Journal for the big ad that ap pears on this sale. L. K. BROWN, 603 Kan. Ave. Activity In Transport Service. San Francisco. Cal.. Jan. 28. The United States freight transport Dix ar rived today from Manila. The big ves sel will soon return to the Philippines carrying 650 horses and mules. The transport Sherman, largest of the trans port ships held in reserve, has been sent to the Union Iron works to have her smokestack lengthened In order to give a better draft to the f urnaaes. The Crook, Meade, Buford;and Warren are all in readiness to. sail with 48 hours' time, but no orders have yet been re ceived from Washington regarding tneir destination. TOOK AN OVEKDOSE. Miss Anna Thompson Dies Suddenly After Taking Medicine, Miss Anna Thompson, a young woman 21 years of age, who was employed as a maid in the family of Charles S. Eagle, at 435 Harrison street, died Wednesday evening from an overdose of medicine, probably oil of tansy. Miss Thompson had been in the most cheerful spirits dur ing the evening and was engaged about her duties until 7:30 o'clock, when she was taken with convulsions. Convulsions followed in rapid succession for three quarters of an hour until her death, in spite of the most strenuous efforts to give her relief on the part of Dr. J. A. Berry. For a week or more past Miss Thomp son had been taking medicine and had taken a dose just before being taken with the first convulsion. After an ex amination Dr. Berry stated that there was no evidence of suicide. The family of the dead girl resides at 411 Crane street and the funeral will be held from the home at 2 p. m. Friday. SIGN ANOTHER MEERS. No. 2 Is Secured lor Topeka Ball Team. Manager Alberts, of the Topeka league baseball team, today signed Meyers No. 2. This is William Meyers who played In the Nebraska league last year and who will play left field on the Topeka team. He is a giant and a heavy hitter. The other Myers, No. 1, will play shortstop. HUMOR OF THE DAY. Eva "Mother -says I'm descended from Mary, Queen of Scots." Tom (her brother) "So am I then." Eva "Don't be silly, Tom. You can't be you're a boy!" Punch. "Of course," said the man, "we are very vulnerable in this matter." "What shall we do about it?" "Why, If we holler loud enough at some one else our own position may escape notice." Chi cago Evening Post. Miss Newriche "Oh, papa! He has the most delicate touch of any pianist I ever heard." Newriche "Delicate? Great cats! Two hundred dollars for two hours' work is what I call a pretty healthy touch." Puck. '"So Dillaney got th' job av corpora tion counsel at tin thousand a year. Shure, he's no lawyer." "No; but he kin hire a lawyer fer three thousand a year thot'll -do th' work betther than Dillaney cud if he was a lawyer." Judge. W'atery "What a queer looking fire place!" "Yes, it'3 an odd conceit of mine. It s made of paper pulp. Pa per pulp? Won't it take fire and burn up?" "Burn up? Old boy, that fire place is made of certificates of steel stock!" Chicago Tribune. "Do you think the trusts have any right to exist?" "My dear sir," answer ed Senator Sorghum, "there is no use in talking about that now. In my opin ion the judicious and proper way to handle the trusts is to avoid doing anything that might irritate them." Washington Star. "I wonder why people say, 'As smart as a steel trap?", asked the very young man. I never noticed anything, so re markably smart, about a steel trap "A steel trap,.' my boy," replied the sage from Sageville, is smart because, unlike some people, it shuts up at the proper time. Chicago Daily News. "I have three sons: One is in congress, one is a yellow journalist, and one is in iail." "Oh, well; don't despair. Some day they may all be in Jan. uie. Mrs. Waggles Everything we have here in the house is so oia it is snaoDy. Waggles Have a little patience, my dear. When they get a little older they will be an antique. Judge. Judge Rowndes Your face is familiar. I've seen you before. Judge Rowndes Ah! What was the charge the last time I saw you? Prisoner I think it Was 15 cents, your Honor. J. mixeu a- cuctt-tdn aui juu. Philadelphia Pres3. "Didn't vou like the football game?" "No. indeed. The players were awfully clumsv. TTiey were always falling down or bumping into each other, just as if they didn t Know wnere tney were go ing." Minneapolis Journal. "Here's half a pie for both of you. Do vou want me to divide it?" "If you do divide it, lady, give me frien' de biggest half." "You appear to be a very unselfish per son." Tain't dat. lady. I've been here be fore. Cleveland .flam jjeaier. Doctor Your husband needs a rest, madam. Mrs. Gabble Yes, doctor, but he won t listen to me. Doctor Don't make it necessary for him to listen to you, madam. That's the sort of a rest he needs most. Philadel phia Press. Baity Moore And when you had follow ed a career of dissipation for some time how does It come tnai you straigntenea un and became resneetable' Calvert, jr. Well, you see, I found that mother and father were not worrying about me or apparently caring if I went to the bow-wows, so it ceased to De in teresting. Baltimore American. "I," remarked the young politician, proudlv, "have had thirty babies named after me. It will be a long time before my name is forgotten." "It will be a longer time before mine is," retorted the second politician. "I have had a brand of cigars named after me and I smoked one. It will be fully a hundred years before they are smoked up if I am any judge of tobacco!" Cin cinnati Times-Star. The -Empress of China-What is that strange noise I hear? The Minister of the Interior It is the bottom dropping Out of the New York stock market, your majesty. Life. "Did you see the Dardanelles while you were in Europe?" "No," answered Mr. Cumrox. "You see we were so busv sight seeing that we didn't have time to call on any of our friends." Washington Star. Future historians are going to have a hard time determining whether Wos y Oil was a hero or a college yell. Fur thermore, some of them may even incline to the belief that he was a health food. Rome (Ga.) Tribune. Are they mad Don't know; they talk so and act so; I think they must be mad. Does.it make any difference? I can't stop; I'm busy. What'd you do if you were in my place? I'd sell as cheap as 1 could, I would. So'd I. 7 FRANK HOBART, 500 West Tenth. HARKETSJODAY. Traders Played for a Break in Wheat Prices. In Spite of That Fact It Holds Up Hell. LIVE STOCK TRADE. Satire Steers Sell at from $3.60 to $4.80. Bulk of Hog Sales from to $4.95. $4. 4 O Chicago, Jan. 28. WHEAT Traders were inclined to play for a break in wheat prices today. Liberal selling from this quarter caused an easier tone in the market. There was considerable commis sion house selling of May at the start and opening prices were VslJic lower to a shade higher, at 89:&S9c. After touch ing Sc the price was bid up by the prin cipal long interest until it had reached sac. At this figure the pit crowd turned active sellers, which resulted in a gradual decline again to the low point. Tne July option also showed weakness and after opening a shade to SVt.c higher, at 810 82c, the price eased off to 8H4C. Minne apolis, Duluth and Chicago reported re ceipts oi dv cars, against lit cars a year ago. Later a better demand from commis sion houses and traders for both May and July deliveries developed with a conse quent gain in prices. July closed 2-'ac higher, at 82c, after touching 82V4c. May closed with a gain of Mtio, at 3c. CORN The easier tone in wheat had a depressing influence on the corn market. There was considerable selling by bears, but offers were fairly well taken by one or two large commission houses. May opened a shade lower to a shade higher, at 49ijg49c. After selling at 49i4j49c, tne price weaKenea to 49-ne, wnere it neia steady. Receipts were 184 cars. May corn advanced to 49vfec, closing at the top with a gain of Vi'5c. OATS Oats were affected by the de cline in other grains. May was unchang ed to Ho lower at the opening, at 42.-54230, later rose to 42V.c, but reacteu again to tlTc. Receipts were 87 cars. PRO Visions .Provisions were easier in liquidation by local holders and on selling credited to packers. May pork was off 2V-.5o at the start, opening at $13.273- 13.80: the price later rallied, to xu.iiVa. nut declined again to $13.30; May lard opened 2Va-71c lower, at $7.37V4t!'7.45, and stead ied later at 17.40; ribs were a shade to 2'35c lower, at $6.70!&6.72tfe. WHEAT Cash: No. 2 red, 93g97c: No. 3 red, 8S(fi97c; No. 2 hard, 80S4c; No. 3 hard. 72ra83c: No. 1 northern, 884i"90c: No. 2 northern, 8488c; No. 2 spring, i;xgBc. Jt.KiN JNO. d, 41J.iC OATS No. 2. 38c: No. 3. 38c. RYE Jan., 66ic; May, 5858i4c. FLAX Cash: N.-W.. SX.171: S.-W., $1.10; Jan., $1.10; May, $1.13. TIMOTHY Jan., $3.; Marcn, fcs.io. CLOVER Jan., $11.25. BARLEY Cash 48sttc. Kansa ot Prices. .Furnished by J. E. Gall, Commissions, Grain, Provisions. Cotton and Stock Office 110 West Sixth street. Te.ephon 486. Correspondent Christie Giain anJ Stock Co.. Kansas City. Mo 1 Chicago, Jan. 28. Open High Low Close Yes WITTTAT- May S9'4- 90 S9 89 89-J July Slvi-62 2i,i 81 82 CORN May 4914- 4974 MVa-V 49 49- July 47 48i 47 4&Vs 47 OATS- May 42-42 42- 41 42 42- July 37Vi- 37 37 37 POKK May ....13 27-3013 37 13 27 13 32 13 32 LARD May 7 37-40 7 47-50 7 37 7 47 7 47 July 7 45 7 47 RIBS May 6 70 6 72-75 6 67-70 6 70-72 6 72-75 July 6 SO-82 6 82 Kansaa City Gram. IFurniahed by J. E. Gall, Commission Grain. Provisions. Cotton and Slocks. Office 110 West Sixth street Telephone 4&& Correspondent Christie Grain and Stock Co., Kansas City. Mo. Kansas City, Jan. 28. Open High Low Close Yes WHEAT May 74-'4 75'i 74H 75 74-75 July.... 72-73 7212 71? izv 71 CORN May 42- 42 42'4- 42 42 July 42- 42 42!-i- 42- 42- Market Gossip Furnished by the H. H. Lee Cotnmlssloi Company, Commission Merchants and receivers and shippers of grain, 623 Kan sag avenue. Independent telephone 7?4. Liverpool opening cables: Wheat un changed; corn d lower. Liverpool, 1:30 p. m: Wheat d lower; corn d lower. Grain receipts at Chicago: Wheat. 28 cars: graded, 0. Corn, 184 cars; graded, 1. Oats, 87 cais; graded, 2. Liverpool closing cables: Wheat d lower; corn d lower. Northwest grain receipts today: Minne apolis, 245 cars; Duluth, 31 cars. A week ago: Minneapolis, 255 cars; Duluth, 69 cars. A year ago: Minneapolis, 324 cars; Duluth, 19 cars. Estimated grain receipts at Chicago to morrow: Wheat, 30 cars; corn, 225 cars; oats, 75 cars. Chicago: Privileges for tomorrow: May wheat Puts, 8874c; calls, 91V4c. May corn Puts, 4!c; calls, ooc. Kansas City Livestock Market. Kansas Citv. Mo.. Jan. 28. CATTLE Receipts today, 11,000 head, including 400 head oi southerns. Market lower, iva- tive steers. $i.60t(-i.$!: southern steers, $3.00 fi4.10; southern cows. $2.O0fi2.8O; native cows and heifers. $2.25'S3.60: stockers and feeders. S3.0ti-u3.80: bulls. ii.ni.W. calves. t2.75ii6.15: western steers, $3.50Uj4.25; west ern cows. S1.5?i3.25. HOGS Receipts today, 10.0(10 head. Mar ket lower. Bulk ot sales, 4..ofg4.9o;neavy, $4.8595.(6: nac-kers'. H.VYA'A; pigs and lights. $1.2'u4.90. SHEEP Receipts today, 4,000 head Market lower. Muttons, $3.50fi4.50: lambs $4.50(55.75; range wethers, $3.25g4.2o; ewes $2.50&3.90. 6t. Lou; Livestock Market. Rt Tnis. Mo Jan. 28. CATTLE Re ceipts today. 4,500 head. Market slow and easv Reef steers. 3.75fi5.15: stockers and feeders. $2.30(i3.7n: cows and heifers, $2.25 414.25: Texas steers. J2.oO'ti4.a; lexas cows nnH Vioifers X2.1n.Tl3.15. HOGS Receipts today, 11,000 head. Mar ket 5-Siloc lower, figs anu nxnis, 4.70; packers'. $4.6iVg5.00; butchers' and best heavv, n.sa'no.i). SHEEP Jtee-Mpts today. 3.0--O head. Market firm. Natives. $3.70114.55; lamDs, $4.75(q5.75. Chicago Livestock Market. Chicago, Jan. 2S. CATTLE Receipts to dav. 18.000 head. Market slow and lower. Good to prime steers, S4.S5'ft5.6'; poor to medium, 54.uiJ'7 4. to; stocKers ana teeaers, $2 Wd.4.10; cows. $1.504.10: heifers, S2.00-3 4 60- canners, $1.5Xa2.4j; bulls, $2,005x4.35; cm 1 vps. S3.5''-t7.121-i. HOGS Receipts today, 40,000 head: esti mated Friday, 3'.000 head. Market steady to dc lower. Mixed ana nuicners n.wt 5 10- ennii to choice heavy, $5.05fT5.15:roue'n heavy, $4.80155.0'); light, $4.604.95; bulk of sales. H.o'JO. SHEEP Receints today, 20,000 head. Sheep and lambs steady. Good to choice wethers. $4.20?i4.65; fair to choice mixed, $3.S5'a4.20: western sheep. $4.005.10; native lambs, $4.50b6.1o; western lamDs, J4.ix'tr 6.15. Kansas Citv Proluce Jftaricat. Kansas Citv. Jan. 28. Close WHEAT- Receipts today, 126 cars. Quotations: Mav. ,&c: July, ic. uasn: iso. z nam 7'57Sc: No. 3 hard. 72'S75c:. No. -4 hard 6&u71c; rejected hard, uiiitac; No. 2 red, CANDY 4 t 5000 pounds of delicious fresh candies at bargain X prices. X 4 CocoIateCreams A re -c goodsour f Coco Bonbons X Maple Dates f price only J Honey Dainties 1 ra,mt7SWeetS lOofbrJilb. T Butter Maples Maple Macaroons J V. Apple Jack X X Assorted Caramels, M lb for .-5c Old style Molasses Caramels, 4 lb. for lOo Finest French Creams, K lb. for ..f0 X Peppermint Stick, 4 sticks for s, jc X Lemon Stick, 4 sticks for jc X Hoarhound Stick, 3 sticks for jc X All regular Penny Candies, 3 for 2c X To Dealers Penny Candies, box 5Qc All standard brands Chewing Gum, package 3o X Salted Peanuts, fresh every day, lb Q0 X 3-lb. box of above, just right for parties, for 50o M. G. Cough Drops, box 4C X Peanut Taffy, i lb. for 5C 1 Common Taffy, lb. for ....5o All fresh, pure goods we handle nothing that the I makers won't warrant to be absolutely pure. Try X one of our half pound assorted boxes at 10c and you'll want more. X Remember, it pays to pay cash and to trade at Xlie Fair, .Ave. s X 931434Hc; No. S red, 9192c. CORN-May, 42c; July, 42g42H1c. Cash: No. 2 mixed. 40ic; No. 2 white, 41VSC; No. 3 white, 40.c. OATS No. 2 white, 2SS30c; No. 2 mixed, 37(S3Sc. RYE No. 2, 50(i51c. HAY Choice timothy, $9.009.50; choice prairie, $7.25. BUTTER Creamery, lS21c; dairy, fan cy, ISc EGGS Fresh, 27c Chicago Produce Market. Chicago. 111., Jan. 2S. BUTTER Market firm. Creamery, 15ifi-22c; dairy, 13-Eiiac. EGGS Market strong. At mark, cases included, SCxji 31 Vie. CHEESE Market steady. Daisies, 10H S'lOc; Twins, 10c; Young Americas, 10. jjivii rut. L.rttx Aiaraet nrm. Tur keys, 11c; chickens, 1114c; springs, W&c. New Tort Stocc Market. Wall Street,New Tork.Jan. 28. STOCKS The opening: stock market showed Ersat irregularity within narrow limits and on a moderate volume of trading. Different members of the Pennsylvania group, tne Pacincs and the Iron and Steel indu trials moved in contrary directions. Uni ted States Steel creferred. Southern Pa cific and Wabash preferred declined point. ressea fctteel uar rose 9g point and Realty preferred a point. Stocks were sold freely and general losses ran from to i point, while Su gar, United States Steel preferred, Ten nessee (joai, (jonsonaatea tias ana u. ana O. suffered from 1 to 1 points. Atchi ison and Illinois Central offered good re sistance, rising a large fraction, and Realty preferred went a fraction higher. The market was steadier in tone at 11 o'clock and became dull at the rally. Meanwhile Chattanooga and fat. Ixmis and Wabash preferred advanced 2 points. belling was renewed beiore tne rally had made any headway and the grangers, Pacific, Coalers and Wabash preferred showed losses ot a point or more, pres sure relaxed in a dull period of trading which followed, but the market showed little rally. Bonds were heavy at noon. The inability of the bull leaders to force the rally encouraged more aggressive selling by the traders and prices yielded to a lower level all around. St. Paul and Sugar extended their losses to 14 and B. and O. and United States Steel to 2 points. Amalgamated Copper and Mis souri Pacilic. which had received some measure of support later also ran oft a point. Rallies and reactions alternated in a small way. Selliner was concentrated at intervals against important market lead ers such as St. Paul, Pennsylvania, Rock Island, Sugar, Amalgamated Copper, Uni ted States Steel preferred. The low prices indicated losses quite generally of a point or more and approached 2 points in some Halt dozen lavorltes. The board room bears rallied the mar ket a moderate fraction by covering their shorts, but the ease with which stock was secured checked the demand from this source and the market did not hold well. The closing was dull and weak. Wool Market. St. Louis, Mo., Jan. 28. WOOL Market nominal. Territory and western mediums 18gi9c; fine mediums, 15S17c; fine, 1516c. New York Butter Market. New Tork. Jan. 2S. BUTTER Market quiet. State dairy, 14!gl9c; creamery, 15 Cn22c. Sugar and Coffee Market. New "York. Jan. 28. SUGAR Raw sugar nominal. Fair refining, 2,c; centrifugal, 96 test. 3 5-113 11-32C; molasses sugar. 2 9-16t'2c. Refined sugar quiet. Crush ed. $5.10: powrterea, 4.so; granulate!, 4.4o. COFFEE Market firm. No. 7 Rio, 8?sc. Cotton Market New York. Jan. 28 COTTON Sales to day, 1,600 bales. Spot cotton closed quiet and 80 points higher. Quotations per 100 pounds: Middling uplands, lti.z&; mid dling guir, tib.au. Bangs of Prices on Stocks. Furnished by J. E. Gall. Commission Grain. Provisions. Cotton and Stocka Oflice 110 West Sixth street. Telepnont 4So- Correspondent Christie Grain anl Stock Co., Kansas City. Mo 1 new York. Jan. 28. Stocks Op'n Hteh l,o Cl'ss Y.- Sugar 12S3i 129 127 127 12Ti People's Gas 102 N.214 101 lo2'j Amal. Copper 50 5'"Vs 4S"4 4?Lj 5yi B. R. T 4f4 -ii 50 T. C. I 4oA 3V4 38 4 U. S. Steel 11 IIS n 11 114 U. S. Steel, pfd 57 57 o 56H 6sV Atchison, com 70H SfH 70 Atchison, pfd 92 Wi 89 Sl C. G. W 17i 17 10 18 17 St. Paul 1W 14C 1 144'4 144 144 R. I., com 25 25 24H 24", 26 Wabash, 00m 2" 2"TS 2- 9iv 21'4 Wabash, pfd 4"2 40i 3!s 39-'-s Mo. Pacific 94-4 94 94-i 94;4 Western Union 88 SS1 8s Manhattan W lWt H4V4 US N. Y. Central 120 120 121 Texas Pacific 27 27 2fi 2S14 27 So. Pacific 514 51 So &014 51 Reading 47 47 4 4 474 Erie 28' 28 27 27 28 Erie, 1st pfd 68 Union Pacific 81 82 804 S04 82 C. 0 36 3H-34 34 34 354 B 0 85 S KF 844 85v-j L. N l"7i 107-4 107 107 108V4 Katv 40 40 40 40H 41 Pennsvlvania 122-s 1224 121 121 122 C. Ac A., com 8 38H 37 37 37 U. S. Leather 7 7T 7 7H 7 C. F. 1 33 34 31 31 32V4 Ex-dividend 14 of 1 per cent. New Tork Money Market. New York. Jan. 28. MONEY Money on call easy at 12 per cent, closing bid 1 and offered at 2 per cent. Time loans firm; 60 days, 354 per cent; 90 days and 6 months, 44i4'4 per cent. CLOSE: Prime mercantile paper, AVifit per cent; sterling exchange strong and PECIAL then weak, with actunl husinMs in km1t. ers' bills at $4.8570&4.S5 for demand and at $4.831"-S4.S315 for 60 day bills; posted rates, $1.84 and $4.8654; commercial billa. $4.824g4.S2. SILVER Bar silver, 55Vsc; Mexican dol lars, 42!ic. BONDS Government bonds easier. Topek Market. Topeka, Ju. M. HOGS. MIXED II tu a PEAVJ 4:65$70 LIGHT 4.40iU.50 CATTLEJ. COWS $J.0Off3.6 HEIFERS 2.0Oft3.M STEERS 3.004M BULLS lomi-.i CALVES. HEAVY LIGHT .3.503( .4.t GRAIN. NO. 2 WHEAT mt WHITE CORN jj! YELLOW AND MIXED CORN S50 NEW CORN ;a NO. 2 OA'IB Sl NO. 3 OATS 22 FRUITS AND VEGETABLES. LFurnished by B. E. Lux, successor to W O. Anderson Co., 210 Kansas ave nue. FRUITS. ORANGES Navel, per box, $3.60. LEMONS California, per box, $g 00 BANANAS Fancy Port Limona. la'rtva $.00 per bunch. AITts-awsi.ai per DDI. CRANBERRIES Per bbl., $6.5036 65 DATES 45c per lb. VEGETABLES. TEXAS NEW BEETS Per doxen bunciies, 65c. TEXAS LETTUCE Per doz., 40c. TEXAS RADISHES Per dozen bunches 40c PARSNIPS Per bu., 65c. CARROTS Per bu., 7!c CANADA RUTABAGAS Per cwt., $1 go CAULIFLOWER Per crate. $3.00. POTATOES Per bu., 8690c. SWEET POTATOES Virginia, per bbl. $4.00; Muscatine, la., sacked, per bu.. II 15 HUBBARD SQUASH-Per dozen. $3,253 2 50 CABBAGE $3.25 per cwt. ONIONS Per bu. S&$1.10; Spanish on ions, per crate, $l.a0. HICKORY NUTS $1.00 per bu. CELERY Blue Ribbon, per dox.. KSc Jumbo, per doz.. 80c. COCOANUTS $4.75 per sack; 6E0 per dozen. HONEY 24-rack oases, $3.00. FIGS Per lb., 10140; boxes containing 10 1-lb cartons, per box, $1.00. B OYSTERS Extra selects, per gal.. $1 70. extra standards, per gal $1.40; standard!' ter gal., $1.35; New York counts. per caS 45c; New York extra selects, per can, 35c! Baltimore standards, per can, 25c. FULL CREAM CHEESE. 20-lb. Daisy cheese, per lb Ua Kansaa Y. A., per lb ,,7 New York State, white, per lb 14J Brick, per lb UW4 Limburger. per lb ,5. Block wls. per lb iJ BUTTER. EGGS. POULTRY. BUTTER Country, 1517c EGGS Case count, fresh, 28c; 22c. storage. POULTRY Young roosters, milic lb t hens, 9Hc lb.; spring chickens, 7Hig84cib't ducks, Sc lb.; geese, 7c lb.; turkevs. 15a lb. HAY. Market very dull an-i weak. NEW PRAIRIE HAY Loose. .$5.006 00 NEW PRAIRIE HAY Baled 5 6060 NEW ALFALFA HAY Loose 6 50-38 M STRAW Baled 6.50'(j6!bo Topeka Hide Market. Topeka, Jan. 28. Prices paid In Topeka this week, base J on Boston quotations: GREEN SALT CURED ra NO. 1 TALLOW ;4o $4.80-55.90. NO CHEVALIER. "I hadn't been on the front platform six months," said the motorman off duty, "when I learned not to look for anything like gratitude from the public. In one In stance an old maid came rushing along on a bike, a pair of goggles on her eyes and cotton in her ears, and when I saw that a collision was coming I yelled at her and put on the brake. Her biki struck the fender and dumped her into If. and was then smashed to pieces. I stop ped the car as soon as possible and grt down and pulled the woman off and on t her feet, and what do you think my re ward was? She took off her goggles to get a good look at me', and then lifted up her hands and exclaimed 'Oh, hevings! It was sich a glori ous opportunity, and yet I have been res cued by a bow-legged, red-headed man!' Young Lady I can always tell your work the Instant I see it. Magazine Artist (delighted) Can you really? Young Lady Easily. The women all look alike. New York Weekly. A. M.McDEARMOTT COMMISSION CO., Rooms 1 end 2. new Devlin Building, 702 Kansas Avenue. Stocks, Grains, Provisions and Investment Securities.,. Handled for Cash or on Margins. UNITED STATES BONDS A SPECIALTY Direct private wires to Chicago and New York. References' All Kansas City and Topek banks and commercial agencies Bell telephone, 292. independent telephone, 221 W. F. LOGAN. Manager.

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TOPEKA STATE JOURNAL TRUKSU A EVJBNJLNt. JAXUAKT 28. 1904. V 4 Always Hever Sick But Bright, Cheery, Confident Brim ming with Energy, Health Wi4 Strong Vitality. MRS. LEWIS MAY, Most Successful Woman Insurance Agent in New York. 141 W. 15th St., New York City. "My profession is that of life insurance agent, and for several years I made the best record of any woman working lor our company. The work is very exacting and I succeeded only by keeping constant watch on myself, as friends warned me that I might have nervous prostration. "In this business, as in many others, success depends almost entirely upon how you are feeling. A tired, low-spirited solicitor might as well stay at home. "I used to take coffee in large quan tities to keep my brain clear and my spirits up, but I knew this would injure my digestion and my nerve s. I discovered that Paina's Celery Compound gave me Just the Btrength I needed by feeding my nerves and keeping me in good health, "I go out to my work every morning feeling bright and cheery and confident. "If I did not 1 would never be able to make the income I do. 46 PAKE'S VOICE FROM THE WEST. Edward O'Connor, of St. John, Writes of Hoch Movement To the Editor of the State Journal: In a recent issue of the Mall and Breeze editorially was stated that in a contest between Governor Bailey and Senator Harris, Harris would win. May I ask what, in your judgment, would be the result of a content between Hoch and Harris. There is certainly no valid reason to assume that Mr. Hoch would command the confidence or sup port of the masses, in whose interest the opponents of the administration are pretending to labor, to a greater ex tent than would Governor Bailey. Or, does this statement of the editor con vey an implication or threat, that the malcontents who are now using Mr. Hoch would refuse to be reconciled, or to abide by the decision of the conven tion? If Bailey is defeated by Harris or any other man on the opposition, it can only be the result of a betrayal of the party by Hoch Republicans. Do you imagine, Mr. Editor, that Bai ley's supporters all belong to the Society of Friends; that they will turn the other cheek and submit uncomplainingly to a line of treatment unjust, vicious and unprecedented in the political history of the state. I fear much that you at tribute to the followers of Bailey, the possession of a larger supply of Chris tian virtues than is warranted. The people are indeed getting tired of this uncalled for strife within the party and are about ready to exclaim, "A plague on both your houses." To- the unprejudiced voter, many reasons present themselves why Mr. Hoch should fall short of the support which would be accorded not alone to Bailey but to any other capable man in touch, with the party organization. In the first place, sluggish sympathy for sore heads is not a potent factor 3n arousing enthusiasm in a campaign. Second, the average voter will weigh the motive that impels Mr. Hoch to Etir up this party strife. Men will ask themselves the question whether or not, Mr. Hoch, if he had been installed in the office of state printer, would be making this campaign; whether or not his higher self would have roused" him to this same effort to purify politics, to awaken a dormant public conscience, to rescue the down-trodden taxpayer from impending ruin, and to lift the suffering masses up mid the Holy of Holies, where they may chant paeans of praise to their savior. The answer to the question, is the crucial test of Mr. Hoch's disinterestedness and sincerity. No vote built of common clay and possessed of ordinary human instincts can believe in the affirmative. In fact unregenerated man, unappreciative of Mr. Hoch's celestial character, and his all-permeating purity, will fail to recog riez in him an impeccable and heavenly prototype, and will wickedly conclude that Mr. Hoch, as state printer, would be whooping it up for Bailey instead of sacrificing himself in an effort to rescue the Republican party from "moral and financial ruin." The world is uncharitable and is likely to dis credit the unctious rectitude that owes its birth to failure to obtain office, and the reform instinct that is coexistent with exclusion from the pie counter. The opponents of Bailey assert that he is not governor, that he is simply an instrument in the hands of the ma chine; yet in the same breath they hold him rer-oonsible for all the sins of omission and commission of the last legislature, thereby ascribing to him an individuality capable of molding and influencing at will the chosen represen tatives of the people. How absurdly contradictory are these implications. They cannot both be correct, as they are antagonistic. Bailey cannot be a Louis XVI and a Cromwell at the same time, as those men whom he failed to recognize in a substantial way would have us believe. But if it were true that the governor Is influenced by the so-called machine, will a change of machines commend itself to the peoole? Or are we to ex pect that the instrument of the would be machine will s:read the odor of his personal sanctity around its operations in such a mannar as to dispel all fric tion, allay all irritation, and evolve only beatific realizations in the si ape of low i taxes, fewer offices, and general econ omy? The parts of the would-be ma chine have been, in the main, in public "I "l ""7 Vpl "FfffFf 1" 7 nothing compares with IA bUlHW trkJiitrt'Ssj&gvxzg of the suffering and danger in Btore for her, robs the expectant mother of all pleasant anticipations of the coming event, and casts over her a shadow of gloom which cannot be shaken off. Thousands of women have found that the use of Mother's Friend during pregnancy robs confinement of all pain and danger, and insures safety to life of 'mother and child. This scientific liniment is a god-send to all women at the time of their most critical trial. Not only does Mother's Friend carry women safely through the perils of child-birth, but its use gently prepares the system for the coming erent, prevents "morning comforts of this period. MhM&W. Sold by all druggists at grj Si.oo per bottle. Book containing valuable information lu uramtem Regulator io.t Atlanta, Proudest Achievement of this Marvellous Nerve Food and Health Maker is that it KEEPS People WelL "I suppose few people who have not been cured of diseases send you letters, but though I have never been sick, to speak of, I thought what a great help Paine's Celery Compound had been to me when I was taking it yesterday morning, and I decided I would send you this let ter. "It hS been worth actual money to me, as I doubt whether I would make half my present Income if I did not have it." MRS. LEWIS MAT. It is men and women who are "always at their best" who have been and are making this country what it is. Not all the busy people are burning out their nerves. There are thousands who understand that force must be supplied to the nerves it' they are to keep their bodily health. And they take Paine's Celery Compound to supply it. The world needs more of such people. Paine's Celery Compound is keeping thousands of people well so well that few of them ever think to send in a iHritf ten acknowledgment of the benefit. Throughout your body for healta or sickness the Nerve System is King." Prof. Edward E. Phelps, M. D., LL. IX, of Iartmouth University Famous Discoverer of Paine's Celery Com pound. use in Kansas for lo! these many years, and judging the future by the past, they do not fill the soul with eleasant anticipations. The cogs are too slip pery, the pinions too warped, the levers too crooked, the gearings too corroded, and the whole machine too much dis posed to squeak for oil. to turn out an ideal croduct. Bailey's administration has been sat isfactory to the people. It has been clean, like his personality. A closer community of interests has brought him more in touch with the masses than any previous governor of Kansas-. But he has failed to satisfy the greed of some of the office-hunting politi cians, and in this failure is found the head and front of his offending. It is lor this that he is now called upon to answer for an array of trumped-uo charges and imaginary shortcomings. It is true, Bailey has not devoted any of his time in posing as a paragon of perfection, or thanking the Lord, "that he is not as the rest of men." Feeling that he is hot bigger than his party, he took counsel of his friends; but, that he ever has been the puppet of a clique or faction is mere assumption. But what of Mr. Hoch? The revelations of the past month offer ample opportuni ty and furnish unerring data for a cor rect estimate of his character; and, it cannot be denied, but an intelligent and "impartial analysis of his actions places him in an unenviable light and lowers him very much from the posi tion he had hitherto held in the esti mation of the people. No man who has shied his caster in the political arena, within the last 30 years, in Kansas, has given to the public such convincing ev idence of a lack of ballast as has Mr. Hoch, by his vacilating, supine, and spineless political gymnastics in the fight now in progress against Governor Bailey. But it will be said he is yield ing to the solicitation of his friends; such defense is its own damnation. The man who yielding to the suggestion of less honorable men, pursues a course which, according to his own statement, is not approved by his judgment, vol untarily proclaims himself a plastic and pliant tool of his managers. Would Mr. Hoch, governor, have more stamina than Mr. Hoch, candidate? If an empty pie counter attracts flies through the action of anticipation on their salivary glands, will loading that counter with the saccharine substantials repel them? Nit. The statement that this attack on Bailey has emanated from, or is endorsed by, the people is void of one scintilla of truth-, and is an insult to the intel ligence of the masses. The discontent, mistrust, discord, and the attendant demoralization have been nursed into existence by disappointed office seek ers and have attained their growth through the persistent advocacy of Missouri and Topeka journals that fail ed to attain their selfish ends. Now I wish to say that I am under no obligations to Bailey. I expect no favors at his hands. But I resent as an insult to the intelligence of the rank and file of the Republican party, this posing of disgruntled politicians as would-be conservators of political purity and champions of the people. This hypocritical cry of the office seek ing the man, revamped from the thread-bare theory of defunct Populism is nauseating. My work brings me in direct contact with the common people almost every day. and if their sentiment be a true reflex of the sentiment of other peo ple throughout the state, it is my can did and unbiased judgment that if Mr. Hoch should receive the nomination, he will be defeated at the polls. The peo ple are not prepared to break the estab lished usage of giving a second term to clean and efficient officers in order to gratify the chagrin and vindictiveness of a clique of boss busting bosses. You may rest assured that the plain every day Republican is not ready to sanc tion the idea that when a man fails to land the office for which he was han kering, he is justified in submitting himself as an instrument in the hands of the disgruntled and disaffected in such a way as to imperil the success of the party, simply that the desire for revenge on the part of a few malcon tents may be satiated. Such an idea carried to its logical conclusion cannot fail to be subversive of all party dis cipline and must eventually lead to disintegration and defeat. EDWARD O'CONNOR. St. John, Kansas. Is an ordeal which all women approach with indescribable fear, for free. JjiO ua. at Her, Best. BURTON AND HOCH. Both Are Endorsed by Dickin son County Republicans. In Dickinson county the Republican convention was unanimous for Hoch for governor. It adjoins Marion county and was conceded to Hoch. It is the home of Senator Burton and the con vention passed the following resolu tion: "We commend the official acts and patriotic services of our esteemed fel low citizen, Senator J. R. Burton, and of his colleague, Congressman W. A. Calderhead of this district, and we in struct our delegation to the congres sional convention to support Mr. Cal derhead's renomination." We believe that the Republican party of Kansas should have a candidate for governor who is mentally and morally big enough and broad enough to be governor of the whole state, a man who when elected governor will guard well the financial interests of the state against grafters and political heelers, a man wno will not prostitute the prest ige of his office to his own selfish pur poses and that of a few petty rjoliti cians, a standard bearer who can com mand most surely the party's undivided strength, a leader and a fit representa tive of our views upon every living is sue, and ona whose record and person ality make up. a true type of the illus trious achievements and moral gran deur of ths Republican party. In the Hon. E. W. Hoch, of Marion, we be lieve we have such a candidate, such a man, such a standard bearer, such a leader, and we therefore instruct the delegates to this convention to use every honorable effort to procure his nomination. The following delegates to the state convention were chosen: F. E. Munsell, C. Hoffman, Lee Stagg, J. W. Creech, J. L. CJalbraith. J. B. Case, P. G. Day ton, S. A. Cooper, D. W. Naill, W. S. Ayres, O. L. Thisler, C. C. Wyandt. The convention also instructed for J. E. Brewer for state senator and for Judge O. L. Moore for district judge. POLiTiCALTGOSSP. A dispatch from Cawker City states that Judge Clark A. Smith of that place has decided to be a candidate for supreme Justice in the coming Republi can state convention. Judge Smith I was a candidate for the appointment I by Governor Bailey a few weeks ago, but the governor appointed W. A. At- kinson of Parsons instead. Judge Smith will be a candidate against Justice At kinson. A Hoch club has been organized at Mankato with J. W. McRoberts, jr., as president. This seems to be the same McRoberts who was on the pay i roll of the last legislature as an asslst ant document clerk. One of the griev I ances of anti-Bailey crowd is that the i last legislature had too many employes. Representative r W. Bevmgton o Jewell county explains how McRoberts came to be on the pay roll. He says that Shawnee county had six or seven i employes on the pay roll and was after this one to which McRoberts was ap- pointed. Mr. Bevington says Jewell county had only two employes and he asked, if any more were to be employ i ed, that it be given to Jewell, and he got it. He gave the place to McRob erts. Primaries were held in Ottawa coun ty Wednesday and, as expected, Hoch carried the county. This is a gain for the Hoch forces, as Ottawa county was for Bailey two years ago. Two candidates for state senator have developed in Franklin county. W. H. Clark will run as the anti-Bailey candidate. He will be opposed by H. J. Smith. When the Republican state commit tee met in Topeka a few weeks ago. Major J. L. Pritchard, of the Leaven worth soldiers' home, was here to ask the committee to segregate the soldiers' home from the rest of Leavenworth county. This was understood to be the plan of the Curtis and anti-Bailey lead ers, and it was afterwards adopted by the Curtis congressional committee-, although the state committee refused to stand for it. but voted to give the soldiers' home ten delegates as a part of Leavenworth county. It was gen erally understood that Pritchard was representing the Curtis element in ask ing for segregation. Now the follow ing dispatch from Leavenworth is pub-' lished in an anti-Bailey organ, the Kansas City Journal: "A scandal has been created in po litical circles here by the nublieantion of an affidavit charging Major Jesse L. Pritchard. of the soldiers' home, with attempting to bribe Joseph A. Gates, an old soldier who -was appointed su pervisor for the coming nrimaries at the home. Major Pritchard is chief of the home police, and has been taking an active hand in politics and is lined up with the element opposed to Curtis. In the affidavit he is charged with hav ing offered Gates $50 if Gates would allow Pritchard to name the Judges and clerks of the primary election at the home. Gates and a witness in the room unknown to Pritchard. and in or der to make the charge perfect he ac cepted $20 of the $50. Gates and Winer, the witness, then voluntarily made affi davit as to tha transaction. It has al ways been contended that any attempt to bribe old soldiers would be sure to result in trouble, as the old men, as a rule, are very honest and upright, and many of them would consider it a mortal insult to be offered money for votes. Joseph A. Gates is a highly in telligent and respected old gentleman, and is a prominent member of the First Presbyterian church of this city. Winer is a veteran of the Spanish American war. The affidavit has been printed in circular form and the various companies at the home are being flood ed with cosies. A great deal of indig nation is being expressed by the old soldiers at the attempt to introduce corrupt political methods into the home." How much truth there may be in the attempted bribery is not known. It is known, however, that Pritchard has been working with the Curtis element at the soldiers' home and has been one of its leaders. The Wilson county Republican con vention has been called for February 26. In Marshall county the Republican county convention will be held on Feb ruary 17. The senatorial convention in the dis trict composed of Lincoln, Osborne, Russell and Ellsworth counties, has been called to meet at Lucas on-May 25. The senatorial committee met in Salina Wednesday afternoon. Sallna is not in that district, but it was the most convenient places for the co.i mittee to meet. ji The Barber county Republican con vention Wednesday, Which elected del egates to state, congressional, and sen atorial conventions, instructed tor President Roosevelt, Governor Bailey, Congressman Murdock, T. A. Noftzger for renomination for state senator, and Morton Albaugh for state chairman. Don't let the little ones suffer from eczema, or other torturing skin dis eases. No need for it. Doan's Oint ment cures. Can't harm the most deli cate skin. At any drug store, 50 cents. SNAP SHOTS AT HOME NEWS Jeannette has found another fad She's joined the literary crew; More evanescent dreams she's had Than any girl you ever knew. But whatso'er she plans to do. No contradiction will she brook; And ebe assures me it is true 'That she's resolved to write a book. In ink-splashed cambric, now, she's clad; Her hair is plaited in a queue; Strictly sub rosa, I may add Her stockings are Bostonian blue; The shops, the play, the "private view" Now win from her no passing look. Nor will she iistenj when I woo, For she's resolved to write a book. Girls, here's a splendid ohance for you -To take the place Jeannette forsook; I'm looking for a sweetheart who Has not resolved to write a book! Frank- Roe Batchelder. in January Smart Set. The genuine midwinter weather for the exposition continues. Dick Hodgins is the head organizer of Hoch clubs in Topeka. L. S. Dolman will move to Kansas City to engage in the practice of law. Wednesday night's attendance at the Midwinter exposition was a record breaker. Examinations for clerks and carriers will be held at tha nostoffice Feb ruary 30. Tables for the Kansas Day club ban quet are being constructed in Repre sentative hall. Rev. F. G. Brainerd, of Ottawa, is here attending the meeting of the Society for the Friendless. Major A. M. Harvey has been ap pointed referee by Judge Hazen in the case of Bennett against Ruffner. One of the greatest vaudeville attrac tions of the Midwinter exposition is the flip-flops which the weather is turning. The Woman's Missionary soeiety of the First Presbyterian church will meet in the church parlors tomorrow after noon at 2:30. Luther Nellis Is losing flesh. He says it is caused by worrying -over how to accommodate the people at the Kansas Day club banquet. The Philips-Slonecker-Rodgers-Dud-ley-Mulvane primaries, as a sort of a donation party to Congressman Curtis, will be held tomorrow. The memorial flag staff committee has raised about $300 toward the erec-j tion of an old soldiers' monument on the Washburn college campus. The B street colored Baptist church has split, and one of the splits has de cided" to have Rev. H W. White for pastor and to buy a church building. Frank Crojf of 814 Fillmore street was taken to Stormont hospital Tues day morning and operated upon for appendicitis. He is now convalescing. The Topeka, Northwestern Frank fort Railway company has filed with the Shawnee county clerk its plat of the survey north from Topeka beyond the county line. Mrs. Frederick Scott will talk on "Current Events" at the Y. W. C. A. parlors at 8 p. m. Friday evening. A general invitation to young women has been extended. D. E. Cain, formerly stationed at To peka in various official positions for the Santa Fe, is in the city on business. He is now general superintendent of the western grand divlsin, headquarters at La Junta. Men who want to get their names on the eligible list for appointment as clerks at the Topeka. postoff ice will have an opportunity of doing so on February 10, for which date a special examination has been set. The city railway hnsr so far taken no action in regard to the petition of Te cumseh people for an extension of the line to that place. The line is not like ly to be built, because there ia not be lieved to be enough business to jus tify it. Black Pattl and her negro trouba dours were at the Crawford last night to play their annual engagement. A season without Black Patti would be like a season without "Uncle Tom's Cabin" or "Faust"; it would be no sea son at. all. Blanche Boies, temporarily a resident of the county jail by force of circum stances and law. will receive bids on the Jersey cow which the Kansas Hermit donated to her to help her in her days of trials, troubles and tribu lations. What does she hear? One of the telephone salesmen stop ping at a big Topeka hotel insisted upon having a room with a bath. When lo cated in his room, he had two barrels of bottled beer and 200 pounds of ice sent to his room. He had the porter crack the Ice, and pack the beer in the bath tub. In this way" he has a very con venient refrigerator, with good drain age. Postmaster John Guthrie was honor ed by a surprise party at his home at 921 Clay street Wednesday night by the members of Topeka Post, 71, G. A. R. and Relief Corps 91. After the greet ings Judge Guthrie was installed in the office of surgeon of the post. He was unable to attend the installation of the post and this manner was adopted by his friends of bringing the installation to him. Leroy Powell, who Is superintendent of the civil service examinations at the Topeka nostoffice, received instructions from the department at Washington by wire Wednesday night for the hold ing of a special examination of appli cants for appointment as postofflce clerks and mail carriers. The exami nation will be held on February 10. This is a short time for preparation, and those who desire to take the ex amination should apply for information about it immediately. From those tail ing thl examination it is hoped to ap point eliglbles for the reserve list. Re turns have been received on the exami nation held last November showing that only one eligible has been named. There was but one remaining on v-ie list from previous examinations. At least one more name must be certifed to the nostoffice department. Will Not Employ Tax Ferrets, Ottawa, Kas., Jan. 28. After a pro longed controversy over the subject of employing "tax ferrets" to list cash and mortgages for taxation, the county commissioners voted to reconsider their provisional contract employing Moir Co., who are now working in Douglas county, for this work. It has been un derstood that the firm would solicit contracts in all the eastern Kansas counties, using the information secured in each for listing property in the oth ers. The agitation in this county has resulted in a public meeting at which it was voted to list all property at its cash value hereafter. Death of Mrs. Jelly. Paola, Kas., Jan. 28 Mrs. A. H. Jelly, wife of the sheriff of Miami county, died here after a five days' illness. 1 Saved from Terrible Death. The family of Mrs. M. L. Bobbitt of Bargerton, Tex., saw her dying and were powerless to save her. The most skillful physicians and every remedy used failed, while consumption was slowly but surely taking her life. In this terrible hour Dr. King's New Discovery for Consumption turned despair into joy. The first bottle brought immediate relitf and its coniin ued use completely cured her. It's the most certaia cure in "the world for all throat and lung troubles. Guaranteed bottles 50c and $1.00. Trial bottles free at Arnold Drug Co., S21 Nortfc Kansas are. MAYOR DISCHARGED. Carter Harrison Released From Kesponsitaility. Chicago, Jan. 28. Mayor Carter H. Harrison has been ordered by Judge Tuthill to be immediately discharged from custody for any responsibility for the wholesale loss of life in the Iro quois theater fire. The Judge declared that the mayor was in no way whatever guilty or lia ble and that the coroner's inquiry in ordering Mayor Harrison held to the grand Jury had put an unjust stigma on the mayor who had failed in no par ticular whatever, either in omission or commission. Following his release. Mayor Harri son made the following statement to the Associated Press: "The only possible feature which the jury were able to find connecting me w-ith the Iroquois fire disaster, was the al leged negligence and incompetency of my appointees. Fire Chief Musham, and Building Inspector Williams. I want to call attention to the fact that Chief Musham has been connected with the Chicago department for 40 years, beginning at the bottom of the ladder and winning his. way to. the position of assistant chief by the gallant and he roic conduct of a life time. Upon the retirement of Chief S weenie I appoint ed Musham chief. The appointment was strictly on merit and met with un animous approval; when the position of building inspector became vacant I invited the builders' club, the associa tion of architects and various other nonpartisan professional organizations to nominate the best available man for the vacancy. They named, in nominat ing Mr. William, a Republican, and gave the strongest testimony to his character and efficiency. I appointed him and he entered most earnestly upon his duties. Both of these men were ideal appointments. The imputation of guilt upon these two men is entire ly unjustifiable, but to strike at me over their shoulders is little short of infamy." In delivering his opinion Judge Tut hill said: "I have gone over the testimony of Fire Marshal Musham and Building Commissioner William and the mayor particularly and I can say without qualification or- hesitation that I find not one word In the evidence as far as I have examined it, which tends even remotely, In my judgment, to show that the mayor had any knowledge of this matter or that he was in any re spect negligent of any duties Imposed upon him by the laws or rules that commonly apply to persona who are re sponsible for the safety of others. "I find that there were gross viola tions, not only of the city ordinances, but of common rules of safety that anybody without any expert knowledge would have said were absolutely essen tial at the Iroquois. But how the mayor, who is simply at the head of the city government could be field re sponsible for any misconduct on his part in view of this evidence I can't conceive." NET EARNINGS SMALLER. Santa Fe Had Big December Increase in Operating Expenses. While Atchison gross earnings for De cember show an increase of 8.9 per cent, operating expenses increased 18.3 per cent, leaving a decrease in net earnings of $93,972, or 4 per cent, compared with the corresponding month last year. Oper ating expenses for the month were 62.90 per cent of gross, being the heaviest since last July, when operating expenses were 63.53 per cent. December gross at $6,035,716 is also smaller than November and October. For the first six months of the fiscal year, to December 31, 1903, the gross earnings show an increase of 12.9 per cent and operating expenses an Identical Increase. For the six months the aver age of operating expenses to gross earn ings was 59.18 per cent. December, therefore, was considerably above the average. The fact, however, that gross increased nearly 9 per cent Is the favor able feature of the showing. The Atchison report for December fol lows: Karnings. Increase. December Gross $6,035,716 495,349 Operating expenses 3,796,797 589,822 Net 2,238,918 93,972 Taxes and rentals.:. 218,800 101,272 Income from op'n.. 2,020,118 195,247 Average op'd mileage 8,216 248 For six months of year to Dec. 31, 1903' Gross 35,812,259 4,117,216 Operating expenses 21,114.289 2.425,437 Net 14,617.970 1,691,437 Taxes and .rentals... 1,123,924 53,423 Income from op'n.. 13,494,054 1,614,3S Av. op'd mileage 8,075 122 December earnings of nearly all the roads centering in Chicago whicH have issued statements make a poor show ing. Large decreases are reported by the Rock Island and other big systems, and these would have been still larger if great economy in operating expenses had not been practiced. The principal reason for the poor IJIIIIllIiIIIIlIIIIIIIIlIIIIiIllIIlIIIlIlSlIIIlIIIllISIIIlIIIEIIliSIiIIIIISIIIIIIIIlIIiIiEiIIliIlIlIlfiIlIlIISifIlllIIlIiIIifIiiIIIIiillIlIFEIIlIfirIfI "All Done Never know what it is to be restful with a constant aching bacK. 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SAF.B PILLS move the bowels gent! y and aid a speedy cure. snowing is me unuauauiy aseveie neaui- j er that has prevailed during the month, i which not only retarded the movement of trains but greatly increased the cost of ooeration. It is admitted that there has been a great reduction in merchandise traffic,' for which the weather is not respon sible. Railroad officials, however, claim that this is but temporary, and when spring business opens up merchandise traffic acain will bo as heavy as ever. Fear Is exoressed. however, that busi ness this rear will not be so heavy as last, because generally dull conditions prevail during presidential years. CAUSED BY FIRE DAMP. Responsibility for Harwick Mine Disaster Is Determined. Pittsburg, Jan. 28. At 3 o'clock this morning seven bodies were taken from the Harwick mine, making the number of recovered dead 87. Jas. El Roderick, chief of Etate department of mines, says the. explosion was undoubtedly caused by the accumulation of fire damp. This is a fact and not a theory. Inspector W. P. Cunningham, who is in charge of the mine now, says every man in the mine was killed by an explosion of fire damp. They died much as if shot through, the heart with a bullet. BEEF FOR RUSSIA. Three Trainloads Reach San Francisco Today. San Francisco, Jan. 28. Three special freight trains have just arrived here from Kansas City and Omaha with a large quantity of mess beef destined for the Russian army in the Orient. The three trains contained over 3,000,000 pounds of beef. The trains came west on fast time, in order that the beef could be carried across the Pacific on the steamers sailing from here the end of this month or early in February. This large shipment is to be split in two, half going to Port Arthur and the re mainder to Vladivostock. Mrs. "vVm. S. Crane of California, Md., suffered for years from rheumatism and iumbago. She was finally advised to try Chamberlain's Pain Balm, which she did, and it effected a complete cure. For sale by all druggists. Out" V. C. Hay, No. S37 Locust St.. says: "In August, 189S, I was taken elek, and was unable to work all winter. My sickness left ma with, kld nejr trouble, and the pain In my back wu something awful. I could not sit or reclina without the aching becoming unbearable. The secre tions from the kidneys were discolored and offensive. I was In bed when I learned of Doan's Kidney Pills, and I ent to Rowely Bnow'l drug store, corner Sixth St. and Kansas Ave., and got a box. The third dose save me relief and In a short time I was able to get up. The treatment rid me of the pain, the kidney secretions were corrected, and my general health greatly lmrjrovad." Mrs. Summa owes her life to the fact that her husband insisted she should try Safe Cure after doctors had given her to die. She tells her own story: "I wish I knew how to thank you for what your wonderful 'Safe Cure' has done for me. I would not be alive today had I not taken it, for the doctors said they could do nothing for me. "My limbs, from the knees down, were badlv bloated and quite painful. I wa nervous and my back ached so Incessant ly that I used to cry all day. I just picked at my food and was terribly thin, and had ringing in my ears. I gave u hope of ever being well again and pre pared for the end. "But my husband heard of such won derful cures by 'Safe Cure" that ho bought me a bottle and a box of Bafe Pills and the first week there was n. change for the better. I kept on taking them and was soon a well. strong, healthy woman again, without a trace of kidney trouble. Oh, I am so grateful and urga everyone who has kidney trouble to do as I did take Safe Cure and be curod. SARAH SUMMA. WHO INVITED BURTON? Report That He Is to Address Kansas Day Club. Is Senator Burton expecting to speak at the Kansas Day banquet Friday night? If so. who authorized anyona to invite him to do so? An Associated Press dispatch from St. Louis says: "A telegram was received by Senator Burton from David R. Mulvane. Re publican national committeeman from Kansas, asking him to address the an nual Kansas Day banquet in Topeka Friday. Senator Barton wired his ac ceptance." The Topeka Capital, Mr. Mulvane's personal organ and formerly Mr. Bur ton's organ, published the same state ment this morning. Luther Nellis, secretary of the Kan sas Day club, says he knows nothing of any invitation to Senator Burton to. speak. "It is possible that Congreasman Mur dock.president of the club, may hava authorized the invitation." said Mr. -Nellis today. "I would neither deny nor affirm the report. I invited tha -other speakers, but I know nothing of any invitation to Senator Burton to make a sneech." Senator Burton evidently gave out the information himself in St. Louis that he has been invited to make a speech at the banquet and had ac cepted. A Very Oloss Call. "I stuck to my engine, although every joint ached and every nerve was racked with pain," writes C. W. Bellam, a loco motive fireman of Burlington, Ia. "I wan -weak and pale, without any appetite, and ali run down. As I was about to give up, I got a bottle of Electric Bitters, and aftar taking it I felt as well as 1 ever did In my life." Weak, sickly, run down people always gain new life, strengtli and vigor from their use. Try them. Sat isfaction guaranteed by Arnold Drug Co., S21 North Kansas ave. Price 50c Best Line to Florida. There is a through sleeper running every day from Kansas City over tha Frisco System and Southern Railway to Jacksonville, Fla. This is the old established line. Many new and attractive features In Florida tours this winter. Full information will be given on ap plication to WM. FLANNELLT, T. P. A., t Board of Trade building, Kansas City, Mo. SI ss. 3 8 m

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TOPEKA STATE JOTIRXAJu, THURSDAY EVENING. JANUARY 28, 1904 l..H..I..H..1.4i,,t,4..t.4., t o HALF CUT THIS COUPON OUT IT'S WORTH Q TO YOU Magic Cough Cure, regular 35c bottle for this coupon and 10c Magic Rheumatic Neuralgia Cure, reg ular price 25c, for this coupon f and. lU Magic Cream Lotion, regular I fp price 25c, for this coupon and I egins Tomorrow Morn in Magic Little Liver Pills, regular price 25c, tor this coupon I II P and I Uw All Winter Cloaks go for Half none reserved. SEE WINDOW: Magic Headache Cure, regular l tr price 25c, for this counpon and CLO B Buys Governor Bailey's dinner Wednesday evening at the Governor's House for Governor A. B. Cummins of Iowa, who was In Topeka to address the State Ear association, was attended by Gov ernor Cummins, Mr. Justice William A. Johnston, Mr. D. A. "Valentine, Mr. J. G. Slonecker, Mr. Charles Blood. Smith and Mr. L. H. Perkins of Lawrence. The table decorations were carnations and ferns. Mrs. H. L. P. Hillyer will entertain the members of the Art club and their husbands at her house on Fillmore street Friday evening of next w.eek. Mrs. Luther Burns and Mrs. Murray Myers ate entertaining a few friends very Informally this afternoon in Mrs. Burns' apartment. Sixth and Topeka avenues, in compliment to Mrs. Chap pell Foote's guests, Mrs. Topp of New York city and Mrs. Carl Moller of St. Louis. The Ladies' Music club met Wednes day afternoon with Mrs. George W. Parkhurst and Miss Charlotte Park hurst at their house on Topeka ave nue. The club quartette sang Strauss' "Night of Joy," Mrs. George E. Stoker played Sinding's Caprice and the fol lowing Schumann numbers were given: Novelletten, opus 21, No. 7 Miss Mary Harrison. The Two Grenadiers Mrs. Florence Fox Thacher. Teh Wand're Nicht Mrs. Parkhurst Night Pieces.. .Mrs. Geo. Barlow Penny Erstes Grun Lady Bird Mrs. John Kleinhans. Waldesgesprach Mrs. Taylor Hughes Four Songs from the Dichterliebe Mrs. Frank Thomas. Fruhlingsnacht Mrs. Frank Foster Guests of the club were Miss Lillian Murray, Mrs. Frank Gilbert, Miss Mary Kinley, Mrs. Grimsley, Mrs. Chappell Foote, Mrs. Topp of New York city, Mrs. Carl Moller of St. Louis, Mrs. P. C. Chamberlain, Miss Pearl Burdge, Miss Wilma Heap and Miss Fannie Spencer of Chicago. A limited number of tickets have been issued to ladies' gallery of representa tive hall for the programme of the Kan sas Day club Friday evening and official and residential society will be represent ed. Occupants of the boxes will be Mrs. Willis J. Bailey, Mrs. Lafayette Young of Des Moines, la., whose husband is to be the principal speaker of the evening, Mrs. William Allen White of Emporia, Mrs. Victor Murdock of Wichita, Mrs. Frank P. MacLennan, Mrs. Edward M. Jolley of Kansas City, Mrs. Joseph R. Burrow, Mrs. Thomas T. Kelly, Mrs. I. L. Dayhoff of Hutchinson, Mrs. Seth G. Wells of Erie, Mrs. Charles H. Luling of Wichita, Mrs. De Witt C. Nellis, Miss Anna Marie Nellis, Mrs. Fred Dumont Smith of Kinsley and Mrs. H. E. Rich ter of Council Grove. Miss Blanch Rohrer will give a din ner party at the house of her parents, Mr. and Mrs. S. B. Rohrer in Potvvin, this evening for the members of her club and a corresponding number of young men. Red and white will be the colors prevailing in the dining room, dinner will be served at 7 o'clock and covers laid for Miss Rohrer, Miss Helen Sharitt, Miss Isabel Heath, Miss Mar garet Pearson, Miss Eva Simpson, Miss Edna Groves, Mr. Alexander Loomis, Mr. Roy Funnell, Mr. Ray Close, Mr. Jess Treakle, Mr. Holmes Meade and Mr. Osborne Larimer. Mr. Percy Norton of Springfield, Ohio, who is wkh Mr. and Mrs. Armin Fas sler, was the guest of honor at a din ner party given by Mrs. Willis Norton at her house on Topeka avenue Wednes day evening. The others asked were Mr. and Mrs. Fassler. Miss Fassler, Mr. and Mrs. John Norton. Mr. and Mrs. Harold T. Chase and Mrs. Julia Thomp son. Mr. Jack Tiffany will entertain a par ty at the Midwinter exposition this evening and for supper at the Elk club afterwards. His guests will be Mr. and Mrs. Frank Scott Davis, Mr. and Mrs. Jacob C. Mohler, Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Morgan and Miss Rachel Teale of St. Joseph. Mrs. H. A. Auerbach will be the host ess of a theater party for the I-Iarry Beresford matinee at the Crawford Saturday, In compliment to Mrs. Topp any of the above, if bring the coupon with you. t Retail Store, 702 KANSAS AVENUE,. of New York city and Mrs. Carl Mol ler of 1st. Louis, who are visiting Mrs. Chaopell Foote. Mrs. H. M. Philips, Mrs. John Pond Fritts and Mrs. McGiffert will be the hostesses of the Chaldean club and the husbands of the members at the! monthly evening meeting, at the Philips i house on Harrison street, next Monday, Mr. and Mrs. G. F. Givens entertained their card club Wednesday night. Prizes were won by Mrs. Charles E. Decker and Mr. Will Berry. The Duplicate Whist club will meet with Mrs. W. N. West next Tuesday in stead of Friday of this week, as an nounced earlier. Western Sorosis will meet Saturday afternoon with Mrs. J. D. McFarland. Mrs. D. H. Forbes will read a paper on "The Old and Yet the New." The discussion will be led by Mrs. H. O. Garvey, Mrs. W. W. French and Miss Zu Adams. The Women's society of the First Congregational church will give a thimble party Wednesday afternoon of next week at the Governor's House. Notes and Personal Mention. Mrs. Charles B. Dieckriede of St. Louis, who is the guest of her daugh ter, Mrs. Erastus H. Crosby, will leave for her home Saturday accompanied by Mrs. Crosby and Helen Louise Crosby. Mrs. Fred Dumont Smith of Kinsley is expected Friday to visit Mrs. Thomas T. Kelly at the Copeland for several davs. Miss Mina Shelton and Mr. Will Scott of Osage City were guests of Mr. and Mrs. James Frederick Scott and Miss Mildred Scott Saturday and Sunday, Miss Shelton remaining over until Tuesday. Mr. and Mrs. C. W. Kouns will leave Topeka soon for a permanent residence in Chicago. Mrs. Thomas P. Grisham of Cotton wood Falls. Mrs. J. P. St. John of Ver sailles, Mo., and Mrs. Piatt Decker of Denver are among the women expected in Tooeka next week to attend the national suffrage meeting February 5 in Representative hall. They will be guests of Mrs. Dewitt C. Nellis. Mr. Brown Corby, of Potwin, went to Herington Thursday for a perma nent residence. Mrs. Corby, who will join him Saturday, is the guest mean while of Mrs. J. W. F. Hushes. Mr. and Mrs. F. W. Pierce, of Junc tion City, are guests of Mr. and Mrs. George A. Clark. Mrs. Harry E. Richter, of Council Grove, is in town to spend a few davs with Mr. Richter at the Copeland. Mrs. Noble Prentis is in Ottawa, the guest of Mrs. Horace J. Smith. Miss "Ruth Campbell, 1028 Harrison streer, will leave Topeka Saturday for Kansas City for a permanent residence. Mr. Jack Harris of Ottawa is in town today. Mr. Darius A. Brown of Kansas City has been in town for several days the guest of Mrs. Brown's mother, Mrs. Prescott. Mr. and Mrs. Charles L. Brown of Ar kansas City are here for the state bar association meeting and are the guests of Mrs. A. H. Horton. Mr. Galen Nichols of Kansas City is in town. Mr. R. C. Gemmell of Monterey, Mexico, is the guest of his mother, Mrs. DR. FED HIMSELF. Found the Food That Saved His Life. A good old family physician with a life time experience in saving people finally found himself sick unto death. Medicines failed and but let him tell his own story. "For the first time in my life of 61 years I am impelled to publicly testify to the value of a large ly advertised article and I certainly would not pen these lines except that, what seems to me a direct act of Prov idence, saved my life and I am im pressed that it is a bounden duty to make it known. "For 3 years I kept failing with stom ach and liver disorders until I was re duced 70 lbs. from my normal weight. When I got too low to treat myself, 3 of my associate physicians advised me to 'put my house in order' for I would be quickly going the way of all man kind. Just about that time I was put on a diet of Grape-Nuts predigested food. Curiously .enough it quickly be gan to build me up, appetite returned and in 15 days I gained 6 lbs. That started my return to health and really saved my life. "A physician is naturally prejudiced against writing such a letter but in this case I am willing to declare it from the housetops that the multiplied thou sands who are now suffering as I did can find relief and health as easily and promptly by Grape-Nuts. If they only knew what to do. Sincerely and Fra ternally yours." Name of this promi nent physician furnished by Postum Co., Battle Creek, Mich. Look in each, package for a copy of the famous little book, "The Road to Wellville." you t R. B. Gemmell. Mrs. R. C. Gemmell will join him here shortly. Mrs. L. H. Perkins o Lawrence is the guest of Mrs. James C. Chappelle at the Copeland. Miss Hazel Fassler, Miss Helen Smith, Miss Ethel Palmer of Des Moines and Miss Anne Warfield of Abilene went to Kansas City today to see Mrs. Leslie Carter in "Du Barry." They will stop in Lawrence on their return Friday for the Theta party. Miss Ann Ryan of Leavenworth is with her sister, Mrs. William E. Drechsel. Miss Anna Harrison and Miss Maud Brown of Independence went to Law rence Wednesday for a week. Mr. and Mrs. Roy D. Johnston will go to Kansas City Saturday to see Mrs. Leslie Carter in "Du Barry." Miss Ethel Dick and Miss Susan Dick of McPherson are guests of Mrs. J. P. Wahle, 1258 Clay street. Mr. and Mrs. Alex. Montgomery of Smith Center who have been visiting Mr. and Mrs. R. J. Montgomery of 622 Monroe street, left for home last night. WROTE'BONME BLUE FLAG' Author of the Famous Song Is Dead in Her 80th Year. New York, Jan. 28. Mrs. Annie Chambers Ketchum, author of "The Bonnie Blue Flag," one of the most famous war songs of the confederacy, as well as of many other poems and prose writings, died today in St. Vin cent's hospital, after less than a week's illness, in her eightieth year. Mrs. Ketchum wrote "The Bonnie Blue Flag" in Memphis, Tenn., in 1862, about the time of the battle ofShiloh, when her husband, Leonades Ketchum, the adjutant of the Thirty-eighth Ten nessee, received a wound, which later resulted in his death. "A Battle Call." a song contempora neous with "The Bonnie Blue Flag." was also written in Memphis at this time and was another favorite among the soldiers of the confederacy. When Memphis was occupied by the federal troops, Mrs. Ketchum refused to take the "ironclad" oath of allegiance, and was banished from the city by the mili tary authorities. She returned to New York from Rome about a year ago, and at tha time she was seized by her final illness she was preparing a book on her lifelong friend, the actress, Char lotte Cushman. Killed by Windy Shot. Fostoria, O., Jan. 28. John Stevens and Alex Carlson, shot firers, were Killed and several men were severely injured in an explosion here today caused by a windy shot. A searching party could not reach the men for an hour, and when the bodies were found Carlson's arms were clasped about Stevens. Made a Bear Admiral. Berlin, Jan. 28. Commodore Schedder, in command of the German West In dian squadron, has been appointed a rear admiral. POLICE COURT JSOTES. William Reams, a young negro who has been employed as a porter at Mat thews Dreschel's shoe store, was ar rested last night on the charge of grand larceny. According to a confession made by Reams he has stolen over $60 worth of shoes from the place in the last three months. His system was to steal one pair at a time and sell them to other negroes for a small amount. He was caught by the coarse work of a negro who had secured a pair of the stolen shoes. The shoes he purchased from Reams did not fit him, so he brought them back to the store to exchange them. The clerks were sure that they had not sold the shoes to the man, and started an investigation. Floyd Kennedy, a young man employed in a local furniture store, came very near to death last night as the result of an overdose of some kind of drug, presumably mor phine. Kennedy got drunk early in the evening, and about 10 o'clock was found at Twelfth and Van Buren streets by a student. Kennedy was walking aim lessly about, and was unable to talk. The patrol wagon was called and Ken nedy taken to the police station, where it was decided that he had swallowed something beside whisky. Dr. Storrs was called at once, and worked over the unconscious man all night. For sever al hours the man was practically dead, his respiration being only three to the minute. He recovered consciousness about daylight this morning, and was taken to Dr. Keith's hospital for fur ther treatment. He will recover. In police court last evening Judge Hamilton delivered a few caustic re marks intended for unwilling witnesses. The occasion was the trial of the Nel son disorderly houses case. The place which is situated in Tennesseetown, was raided by the police January 16 and five women and three men, all colored, were arrested. Witnesses who lived In the vicinity of the place at 1160 Lincoln street were called to testify, but seemed to know nothing about it. All the de fendants were discharged. I About twenty carriedover Cloaks, I FIFTY SHELDON'S STORY. It Was the Feature for Society for Friendless Meeting. The reading of an original story by Rev. Charles M. Sheldon, of this city, was the feature of last night's session of the third annual convention of the Kansas Society for the Friendless. Dr. Sheldon is a member of this society and prepared the story especially for the present convention of that organi zation. In reading it Mr. Sheldon oc cupied about one hour of last night's meeting and from beginning to end the audience gave him their closest atten tion. The story was not one that would create much enthusiasm but contained simple facts and statements regarding the saving of a boy from crime, that were of interest to the members of the association who, are attending this con vention. Dr. Sheldon's story concerned one "Jimmy Burns," who. as the result of bad environment in early life, had come to be regarded as a "bad character" by the members of the police depart ment in the city in which he lived. At an early age he was "jerked up" for some trivial misdemeanor and thrown into the city jail where he was com pelled to stay for about two months. At the expiration of his term, a minis ter, who had become interested in Jim my's case met him at the doors of the jail and informed him that he had se cured work for him. Jimmy did not show any particular delight in secur ing a position but finally consented to the plans which the minister had map ped out for him. Young Burns' work consisted of the care of a private stable. He received two dollars per week, his board and clothes, and had a. room in the stable with the gardener. Jimmy held this job for several weeks and the minister had begun to entertain some hope of his being saved when, much to his sur prise, he received a notice which stated that Jfrnmy had disappeared and had taken with him $50 in money which be longed to the gardener with whom he had been rooming, and, several weeks later when he was caught, he was tried and sentenced to a term of two years in the penitentiary. And so it went with Jimmy. Time after time he was found guilty and sentenced to the penitentiary. And every time that he was released the first thing that he would do would be to commit the same crime over again. The minister, however, did not give up and in the end when Jimmy was con verted on his death bed in the peniten tiary, he felt that he had been amply repaid for his labors. It was stated last night by Edward A. Fredenhagen, general superintend ent of the society, that Dr. Sheldon's story was the sole property of the so GRAND CLOSING-OUT THE ENTIRE STOCK OWNED BY 603 Kansas Avenue WILL BE CLOSED OUT WITHOUT DELAY February 7th we close our doors forever. This $10,000 stock, of Ladies' High-grade Furnishings, Fine China, etc., is now plunged into the torrents of a Mighty Closing-Out Sale. 25 SALESLADIES WANTED Apply Friday, at 2 p.m. 3.00 Even Money priced up to $20.00--choice. SUIT Latest Fall Styles- ciety and it was their intention to pub lish it in book form, the proceeds to go into the treasury of the association. The remainder of last night's pro gramme consisted of a vocal solo by ti. urainerd and a short address bj E. A. Fredenhagen, general superin tendent of the Society for the Friend less. The following was the programme of today's session. Punishment or Reformation Which? Warden E. B. Jewett, Lansing Penal Conditions in Texas The Rem edy L. M. Openheimer Chairman Board Prison Commissioner of Texas, Austin. Up-to-date Prison Management Warden R. W. McClaughry, Fort Leav enworth. General Discussion of Prison Re form, led by Superintendent Marshall of Kansas reformatory, Hutchinson. Aid for Released Prisoners and Re ports from the Field Supts. Fredenhagen, Hoffman, Bralnerd and Ricker. Open Parliament What has helped me most in this convention. NEW TELEGRAPH LINES. Russia Arranges to Bo Independent of Japanese Wires. New York. Jan. 28. The native dis turbances at Py-Eng-Yang are increas ing, according to a Herald dispatch from Seoul, Korea, The secret rebel society known as the Tong Haks is openly threatening foreigners and the over throw of the present dynasty. The Tong Haks were prominent factors in causing the China-Japanese war of 1S94. Some 300 Japanese and many Ameri cans reside at Py-Eng-Yang, but the American minister does not expect im mediate danger. Cabinet changes continue. Pak-Chi-Sun, the Korean minister to China, has been recalled to become foreign min ister. Russia is building a telegraph line from An Tung to form a conection with the Russian wires now operating on the China Eastern railway. The Korean government has wires from Seoul to Wiju. This arrangement will enable Russia to cable to Seoul without using Japanese wires and obtain telegraph service between Port Arthur and the Yalu river. Held Up and Bobbed. San Jose, Cal., Jan. 28. D. A. Pohl mann, treasurer of the federated trades council of Santa Clara county, was held up and robbed, of $230 and a gold watch shortly before midnight and then shot, perhaps fatally. Pohlmann was returning home from a meeting of the federated trades where he had col lected the money. "Cure the cough and save the life." Dr. Wood's Norway Pine Syrup cures cough and colds, down to the very verge of consumption. 3H3R3 long and short THE INSURGENTS LOSE. Old Officers of Protected Ark Are Sustained. The factional embroilment of the na tional convention of the Knights of the Protectefi Ark seems to have cooled down. The eight members of the mi nority delegation chosen at the state convention in Topeka ten days ago in opposition to that which was favorable to the officers of the order, left for their homes last night after a long con ference with the state superintendent of insurance. By a resolution adopted by the national convention the acts of the present officers during their past terms were declared official, including those of raising the salaries, of the head officers. By changes in the con stitution adopted at this meeting the grounds on which the insurgents based their assertions of assumption of pow er, on the parts of General Secretary S. R. Kutz and President Amos, will be removed. STRUCK OFF THE LIST. American Steel Foundry Securities Under a Ban. New York,, Jan. 28. The stock ex change authorities made the following formal statement today regarding the action of the governors in striking oft the list the securities of the American Steel Foundries company: "Whereas, It appears from the re port of the committee on stock list that misrepresentations of an important character relating to the financial con dition of the American Steel Foundries at the time of application for listing of its common and preferred stocks upon the exchange in November, 1902, were made to the committee on stock list on its application; therefore be it "Resolved, That in accordance with article 33, section 4, of the constitution, the common and preferred stocks of the American Steel Foundries be and hereby are removed from the list." Under the section named the govern ing committee is empowered to suspend securities of any corporation previous ly admitted to quotation or it may summarily remove the securities from the list. $20,000 for a Hospital. Baltimore, Jan. 28. Henry Phipps, the steel magnate, has donated J20.000 to the Johns Hopkins hospital to estab lish a separate out-patient department for consumption. Body and hands are covered, the face exposed: Satin-Skin Cream and Face Powder protect, bestow a satiny skin. MRS. L K. BROWN, 603 Kansas Ave. X lengths, formerly z i. rice RODE ON COW CATCHER. John Hancrow Experiences Remark able Escape from Death. Chicago, Jan. 28. "Block the limited; there'B a man on the cowcatcher." This message, flashed along the Pennsyl vania line, told the story of a railroad accident just outside of Cnicago which nearly cost a man's life and which, trainmen say was almost unprecedent ed in their experience. John Hancrow while crossing the tracks in Park Manor was caught from his feet, hurled in the air. recaueht on the cowcatcher, and while the train sped on nearly a mile a minute he saved himself by wrapping his arms around the iron beam in front of the engine. Two ot his ribs and one of his legs were broken, yet in spite of a freezing temperature he clung for four miles, unable to set a signal to the engineer and fireman who were only a few feet behind him. Not until telephone messages were sent ahead and the train was stopped by signal at the River Line station was the man rescued. Hancrow probably; Will recover. HALF MILE OF EMBERS. Millions of Feet of Lumber Destroyed by Fire. North Tonawanda, N. Y., Jan. 28. Half a square mile of glowing embers was all that remained today of one of the largest lumber yards in North Tonawanda. All of the north .end of Tonawanda island was swept by the flames and between 12 and 15 million feet of lumber, valued at a quarter of a million dollars was destroyed. Tha loss is fully covered by insurance. The heaviest loser is the firm of White, Rider White, whose loss will amount to $225,000. The fire is believed to hava been of incendiary origin. Eight Inches of Snow in Alabama. Birmingham, Ala., Jan. 28. Accord ing to the weather bureau a snow fall here last night amounted to eight inches, the heaviest of which there is an official record. Street car and rail road traffic is delayed. Good Coal at Reduced Prices. We are obliged to move a large stocK of Arkansas Anthracite and Semi anthracite coal on account of certain changes in our yard, buildings and sheds due to changes made by tha Santa Fe to accommodate their new freight depot. In order to move this coal quickly we have made a large re duction in the price. Preference will be given in the delivery of these coals. THE SOUTHWESTERN FUEIi COMPANY, I 734 Kansas Avenue. Telephones 771, 193, 144. SALE F

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9 f THE TREASURE OF'A WRECK In the year 1862, while serving on noard a man-of-war in the Federal Tay- 1 "ad a chum named Adarns.who nad been a sailor. He was killed a year later, but meanwhile had told me a strange story of a treasure-wreck on Kerguelen Island. After his death and the end of the war I verified his story In part, and that brought about the organization of a treasure company. This company was composed of six men, all of whom had served In the navy, and our capital was the pay and Priz-e money due us at the close of the war. We bought from the government the bark Hater, which was captured off Wilmington in the last days of the blockade runners, and she was fitted out for the voyage at Charleston. We engaged twelve negro sailors for the voyage, making, with the officers, cook and steward, twenty men. We took on board shovels, picks, axes, jack-screws, powder and fuse. and whatever we might need in cleaning out a hulk, to gether with lumber to build us a house ashore, and we cleared for Sydney at the custom house. The six of us had Put In every dollar we could raise, and there was just $130 in the common purse when we sailed away. All of us believed in the treasurer, however, and the craft was well supplied with pro visions. It was a long voyage, without inci dent to interest. Our first and only stop was at the Cape for fresh water. One day, months after leaving Charles ton, the Island of Kerguelen rose up out of the sea before us. We gave three cheers and brought up in a shel tered bay on the north side, and soon had a boat in the water to go ashore. Right there on the beach before our eyes was the treasure-wreck Adams had told me of years before. The sight of that battered hull, gray and weather beaten and rotting away, was like com ing upon the skeleton of a human be ing on the great plains. We stood con templating it for a few minutes, and then clambered aboard. The birds were thick about, but not another living thing had visited that shore since Ad ams paddled away from it on a raft to be picked up two hundred miles away. She lay fifty feet above high tide, and we could walk all around her dry shod. t tZ-J. r i r,.. i Right there on the beach before our eyes was the treasure wreck. We spent the first day in a cursory examination of the wreck and the is land, and on the next we built a shanty with our lumber and unloaded our tools and provisions. On the third day we began work at the hulk, chop ping out her decks above the treasure room and reaching the stronghold after a long day's work. There were no less than six iron bound boxes and a big steel safe. We got at the safe first. When it had been hoisted on deck and lowered over the side it was blown open with powder and we found $300,000 in English gold and notes. There was jewelry to the amount of about $110,000. and this was ticketed with the names of various pas sengers. In the six boxes, which were all urivate property, we found about $20,000 in cash and various pieces of jewelry and many papers. Among the latter were deeds of real estate in Australia and England, and two com missions belonging to army officers. As fast as we came to private iiroperty it was reticketed and laid aside with a view of restoring it to owners or rela tives. Adams had told me that the ship was foundering when driven ashore in a terrible gale, but when we came to get into the hold we found that very little of the cargo had been damaged. We got out thousands of pounds of wool in good condition, together with sufficient tallow, hides and wines to give our craft a fair cargo. Adams had been washed overboard before the ship struck, and had remained on the lonely Island for about three months. During that time he had taken water and pro visions from the wreck, but did not go near it except when driven by neces sity. He knew that there were many dead bodies aboard, and stood in fear Of them. We began finding skeletons as soon as we began work, and from first to last we buried the bones of at least fifty unfortunate passengers, many of them women and children. We found them mostly in the main cabin and the taterooms, and some of the skeletons were buried under four or five feet of hard sand. The doors of some of the staterooms were found locked and had to be broken open. When driven frantic with fear the people had lecked them selves in to die alone. We did not find our tresure and get the cargo out of the hulk in a week or a month. On the contrary, we were on the island 16 full weeks, and work ing hard every day, and when we at last finished our work the wreck was .blown up. and the next high tide car--ied all that was left of her out to sea. ;he had rested there in the sands of hat lonely shore for 21 years, and yet only one man knew of the treasure in her bowels. When our work was quite finished we sailed away, laying our course for the Cape of Good Hope. The six of u) were rich men now, but I do not re member that there was much rejoicing over the fact. The lonely situation of Kerguelen and the finding of the skele tons had nuite taken our enthusiasm away. After a prosperous voyage, we finally reached the cape and anchored to take on supplies. None of the sail ors were permitted to go ashore. We meant to run the craft straight to New York without another stop. I took the sum of $2,000 and went ashore to buy and send down the supplies, and I was then to take a steamer for Amer ica and reach there first and make ar rangements for the reception of the treasure and cargo. Two days later I stood on the shore end saw our bark away with a fair wind. She was spoken two days later, but that was the end. From that day on she has never been heard of. The blacks knew of the treasure, of course, and they may have mutinied and taken possession. The bark may have foundered or burned, or been driven ashore on the African coast. It is 35 vears since she sailed away from the I cape, and no man can more than guess her fate. Now and then one may wrest a treasure from the sea, but Old Ocean is avaricious and implacable, and fights to retain what she gets hold of. M. Quad. WOMEN OF PORTO RICO. "The Spaniards went to Porto Rico for what they could get out of It, and I am sorry to say that a good many Americans have sone for the sama reapon," said Mrs. Elliott Jones before the National Society of New England Women at its regular business meeting in Delmonico's yesterday afternoon. "But nevertheless." she continued, "we have done much for Porto Ricans, and the American women resident on the island, most of them being wives of army and navy officers, have taken a leading part in the good work. "I never saw anything so terrible as the poverty in Porto Rico. People often ask me why the American occupation has not imriroved the condition of the people, but this is easy to understand after one has lived there. Although the Spanish government has been de stroyed, the land is still owned by Spaniards, and they have taken ad vantage of the establishment of the American system of currency in the is land to raise their rents, reckoning a peso, which is worth only 60 cents, as equal to SI. This has nearly doubled rents and has caused a great deal of poverty, for which the United States is being blamed. Then there was the hurricane, which left thousands desti tute. This was when the women came to the rescue. About twenty of them organized the Woman's Aid Societv of Porto Rico, annealed to their friends in the north and fed and clothed this multitude. "At first aid was given absolutely gratis, but it soon became evident that this was producing pauperism, and arrangeents were made for sup plying the women with work. This is still kept up, and under the care of the secretary the women, who when th;y first came for assistance, tumbled over one another like a lot of animals, have become neat, clean and self-respecling. Another thing which the women have done is to build a hospital at San Juan. Formerly the poorer classes of Porto Rico had scarcely any care in time of sickness. The newborn children cared for themselves, and the result is- tue terrible deformity which one sees ev erywhere in Porto Rico. The new hospital is intended for maternity cases and the city of San Juan is giving $200 a month to its support. American nurses have been secured, and if any of you want to help you can send a box of cast-off clothing addressed to the Women's Aid society, San Juan, Porto Rico. Don't put in any furs or velvets, but make up a box of all the cotton garments, sheets, towels and pillow cases that you can spare, and you have no idea how much good ii will do. I would like to tell you more about what is being done in Porto Rico, but it would take too long." New York Tribune RIDDLE IN COTTON. The fact that the price of 14.10 cents per pound, at which cotton sold on the eve of last Tuesday's break, was the highest reached at this season of the year since 1874 is generally known. It is not so widely known that it is the highest price reached at any time in fifty years, except in the paper money inflation, the civil war blockade, and the single year 1S57. Comparison with the war and fiat-money periods would, of course, not be fair, the circumstances of those times being wholly abnormal and in r,o respect analogous to this year's. The rise of cotton to 15T cents in 1S57 was somewhat singular, from the con ditions attending it. The sweeping fi nancial panic of that year broke cut in SET IN NATURAL WHITE FOX. V I I All f Wis I r 1 -v 9 f i f This handsome boa and muff are worn with a costume of black Boule vard velvet, the corsage made in a loose bolero effect, with bands of black Spanish lace over white silk trimming waist, sleeve and skirt. Chiffon sleeves fall over deep lace cuffs. The hat is of velvet and moleskins, with a couple of shaded tips on the right, t fH -AND- v Miscellaneous FULL AN A. IJ. 1- Call Box or call either telephone No. El and havs your Want Ada brought t State Journal of fice by tree roes, enger service. Coat of classified mOs five cents pet line of six wordi to the line nd every fraction thereof. OFFICIAL ANNOUNCEMENTS. I AM A CANDIDATE FOR COUNTS attorney, subject to the Republican primaries February ?7. OTIS E. HUNGATE. W. H. WASSON IS A CANDIDATE FOR county superintendent of public Instruc tions, subjtct to the decision of the He publican primaries. I HEREBY ANNOUNCE MYSELF AS A candidate for judge of the district court of Shawnee county, sabjeet to the Republican prima rv election. ARTHUR J. MeCABK I WILL RE A CANDIDATE FORCOUN ty superintendent of public instruction, subject to the Shawnee county Republican primary. C. H KUTZ. I AM A CANDIDATE FOR STATE senator from tne Seventeenth district, (17th), subject to the decision of the qual ified electors in Shawnee county in No vember. C. P. BOLHAH. I HEREBY ANNOUNCE MYSELF AS A candidate for rvnominatlon as state senator for the Seventeenth senatorial district, subject to the Republican county primaries. JOHN T. CHANEY. September: in October all but one of the New- York banks suspended, and the country's trade was paralyzed. Yet it was in this very month of October that cotton, which had started the year at 13 cents a pound, rose to 15vs- The crops of that season and of the sea son before, though short some 400.000 to 600,000 bales of the crop of 1855, were still above the average of the few pre ceding years; but in the same two sea sons consumption in Europe and Amer ica increased enormously. The finan cial crash jut a speedy end to this de mand of spinners, and the price de clined to 8Ti cents in the ensuing spring. The fact which marks out the past season's cotton speculation as an un dertaking quite apart from even the curious movement of 1857 is that be yond the government's estimate and the price itself, there has been not a shred of evidence that the crop is be low that of a year ago. Deliveries from farm to market, up to the pres ent date, though the crop ripened very late, have far exceeded the total for the same period in any year since 1898 This week's arrivals ran 37.900 bales above the same week last year, and the stock of American cotton in the hands of consumers and the markets is today 110.000 bales above this date last year, when the price was lower by 4V2 cents per pound. New York Post. 1 ,1 ,c, i l w i FOB SALE REAL ESTATE. WOOD DICKINSON. Real Estate, Rentals and Loans. 534 Kansas Ave. Topeka Kansas. FOR SALE See that 70 acre Kaw bottom farm, north of Oakland? We want to sell quick. We have farms from 40 to 640 acres In Shawnee county, you can't beat in the state for the money. Call and see us. WOOD DICKINSON, Topeka, Kan. 534 Kansas Ave. WORTH YOUR INVESTIGATION. ISO acre farm in Howell county. Mo., near West Plains, on Memphis railway, mostly valley land, 80 acres cultivated, 100 acres timber, never failing springs, 5 room house, barn and outbuildings, 10 acres orchard, 30 acres meadow, 30 acres rye. Price $3,200. Wil trade for smaller farm in northeastern Kansas of equal value. See H. S. DAY, 530 Kansas Ave. mm& vesper, Ind. 'Phone 960. 112 E. 6th St lMj lots Clay St., good 8 room cottage, cellar, well, barn, poultry house. A snap, lots Morris ave., good 8 room house, cellar, well, cistern, nice shade, would exchange for a good cottage closer in. Price S2.X. 1 lot Topeka ave., goou 7 room house, would rent for $13. Price $1,200. 3 lots, good modern 8 -oni house, Polk St., $3,500. OOOD IMPROVED FARMS. 16 acres scood land 9 miles out, $6. 400. 160 acres bottom land 1 miles out. is.UXI M acres good land 10 miles out, $2.50". SO acres good land 10 miles out. $2.21. SO acres sond land 11 miles out, $2,S"0. SO acres good land 8 miles out, J2.S00. 40 acres good land 6 miles out, J2.SO0. 40 acres good land 4 miles out. $2,600. 40 acres good lfinri 9 miles out, $1,550. GARDKN TRACTS. 4 acres, 4 room house, 2 miles out, $1,200. 5 acres, 5 room house, 3 miles out, $1,000. 10 acres, 2 room house, 3 miles out, $1,300. 10 acres. 2 room house, 3 miles out, $1.20. I AM A CANDIDATE FOR THE NOMI nation as county commissioner from the Third district, subject to the Republican primary. PRANK W. HARRISON. A. W. DANA IS A CANDIDATE FOR district judge of Shawnee county, suo ject to the Republican primary on Febru ary 27. I AM A CANDIDATE FOR KEPRES3N tative of the Thirty-eighth district. Sec ond, Third and Fourth wards, subject to the Republican primary election. W. A. S. BIRD. I AM A CANDIDATE FOR THE NOM ination far representative from the Thirty-ninth representative district, sub ject to the Republican- primaries, Feb ruary 27, 1U04. W. W. HARVEY. ROBERT STONE IS A CANDIDATE for representative in the Thirty-ninth district, subject to the Republican pri mary. DR. W. A. WEHE 'HEREBY AN nounces hla candidacy for coroner ot Shawnee county, subject to the Repub lican primary. J. B. SIMS ANNOUNCES HIMSELF AS a candidate for the Afice of county commissioner from the' Third district, subject to the Republican primaries. I AM A CANDIDATE FOR RENOMINA tion to the office of county clerk, sub ject to the Republican primaries of Feb ruary. A. NEWMAN. I HEREBY ANNOUNCE MYSELF AS A candidate for the legislature in the city district, consisting of the Second. Third and Fourth wards of the city of Topeka. JOHN V. ABRAHAMS. i am a Candidate for coroner of Shawnee county, subject to the Re publican primary. DR. H. H. KEITH. I AM A CANDIDATE FOR NOMINA tlon as county commissioner from the Second commissioner district, comprising the Second. Third and Fourth wards of the city of Topeka, subject to the Re publican primary. W. E. STERNE. 1 WILL BE A CANDIDATE FOR COUN ty superintendent of public instruction, subject to the Shawnee county Republican primary. JOHN R. CARTER. I AM A CANDIDATE BEFORE THE Republican primary for county attorney of Shawnee county. W. H. COWLES. I AM A CANDIDATE FOR STATE SEN ator from Shawnee county, subject to the action of the Republican primary. J. J-S. iiMia, WANTED MALE HELP $S TO $12 weekly easily earned by either sex knitting seamless hosiery for the western market; our improved family ma chine with ribbing attachment furnished worthy families who do not own a ma chine on easy payment plan. Write at once lor lull particulars ana commence making money. No experience required. United States Woolen Co., Detroit, Mich. ANY intelligent person may earn good income corresponding for newspapers, experience unnecessary. Send for partic ulars. Press Syndicate, Lockport, N. Y. MOLER'S barber college of Dallas, Tex., Denver. Col., or Salt Lake. Utah, offers advantages in teaching the barber trade tnat can not tie naa eisewnere. write nearest branch for terms. WANTED 3 patent right men. Capital Employment, ida Kansas ave. WANTED Men to quarry stone and to break stone. Apply at new scnooi oiag., Fairchild and Quincy sts., North Topena. WANTED Men to learn barber trade; we have the best opportnity ever offer ed. Can earn nearly all expenses before completing. Start now and finish for spring rush. Write for catalogue. Moler Barber College, St. Louis. Mo. WANTED FEMALE HELP. WANTED Dining room girl or girl to learn. 201 E. 8th St. WANTED Good white girl for light housework. 115 W. 12th st, at once. WANTED Cooks. waitresses. house girls, maids. Capital Employment, 735 Kansas ave. WANTED Girl for general housework; no children in family. 721 Polk st. WANTED Second cook and dishwasher. 122 W. 6th st. Topeka hotel. WANTED White girl for general house work; must be a good cook. 616 Madi son. WANTED Competent girl for general housework. Mrs. F. M. Bonebrake. 1312 Buchanan st. i WANTED AGENTS AGENTS wanted to sell choice tested fruit and ornamental trees for the Kan sas Home nursery; cash weekly. A. H. Griesa, box J, Lawrence, Kan. WE WANT lO.OOOagents for greatest house hold seller ever invented; best money maker on record: actually sells to every house; send 15c for sampleandour 2 mam moth catal"rues of agents' supplies.South ern Merc Co., Dept. 52. Houston, Tex. FOB SALE REAL ESTATE. SELL, rent, exchange, collect, insure. Ind. phone 1225. Gibson, 622 Kansas ave. SHAFFER VESPER, 112 East Sixth St. 4 acres fine bottom land with good 4 room cottage, near Santa Fe shops, would exchange for good west side property. Price $1,200. FOR SALE-240 acres, 115 acres in culti vation, good fencing, good improve ments, one of the best stock and grain farms in the country. Price $10 per acre; $1,000 on live years' time and balance cash. This is a snap and must sell at once. "Write for information and list. Pomona Real Estate Co., Pomona, Mo. WANTED SITUATIONS. WHEN ycu want to hire a man or boy, call up Y. M. C. A. teiepnone 311. We have a list of men and confidential ref erences concerning then-. Y. M. C A Employment Bureau 117. K. 8th at. WANTED Position by young lady as cleric, collector, copyist or correspon dent. Can give references. Address A. L., care Journal. WANTED Situation as housekeeper in widower's family by woman of experi ence; references given. Address or call with references Mrs. Teaman, room 5, 735 Madison st. WANTED MISCELLANEOUS. WANTED You to send for free sample pages of "Jesus Was; Christ Is;" op timish in religion. Smith Book Supply Co., Topeka, Kan. WANTED To borrow $2,000 at 6 per cent; first mortgage security. Address J. D. F., Journal. WE WANT you to come and make con tracts for pickling cucumbers, $200 is often made off one acre of ground. Call on Otto Kuehne Pres. Co., North Topeka. WANTED Loose hay hauled from near Burnett's Mound. Call at 210 E. 7th. WANTED Good clean cotton rags, at Journal office. WANTED To buy house from owner in South Topeka. State size of house and number of lots. "South Side," care Jour nal. FOB BENT HOUSES. FOR RENT 6 room cottage, gas, city water, cistern. 412 E. 8th ave. FOR RENT Small house at 1031 Madison st. Inquire 635 Monroe at. FOR RENT 5 room house 314 E. 7th st. Call 635 Madison. r FOR RENT 1019 Jackson st. P. C. Moore. 420 Kansas ave. FOR RENT 8 room house1 and lri acres, near Shorey, $10 month. M. Heery, Ind Tel. 1235. FOR BENT BOOMS. FOR RENT Furnished front room with alcove, to one or two gentlemen, gas. heat and bath. 715 W. 6th St. FOR RENT Modern rooms .at 412 W. 5th st. FOR RENT Unfurnished rooms 832 Kan sas ave. FOR RENT One furnished room, with bath and gas, to one or two gentlemen. 70S Harrison. St. FOR RENT Large upper room, south and east front, alcove, house modern; gentlemen. Apply 421 Quincy st. FOR RENT 3 unfurnished rooms. 1206 Jackson st. FOR RENT Furnished room opposite Capital Square, bath and hot water heat. 920 Jackson St. FOR RENT Furnished rooms and board, heat, bath. M4 Monroe st. FOR RENT Nice furnished room for 1 or 2 gentlemen. 116 W. 6th St. FOR RENT Furnished rooms, pleasantly located, electric lights, bath. 512 Quincy. FOR RENT Nicely furnished modern room, with or without board. 622 Van Buren. FOB BENT MISCELLANEOUS. FOR LEASE Feb. 1, n ice home for nice people. W. H. Barnes, state house. FOB SALE MISCELLANEOUS. FOR SALE Good team, wagon and har ness. 1540 Kansas ave. PIANOS and organs repaired, bougnt or sold. Geo. D. Butts. 921 E. 6th st. FOR SALE Male hog. brood sows and pigs. V mile west of Burnett Mound. A. B. Webber. FOR SALE A team of work horses, wag on and double harness, nearly new .Call at 114 W. 23d st. FOR SALE Good Shorthorn bull. 626 Quincy st. FOR SALE New Home sewing machine, latest style, drop head, cheap for cash, at K. P. hall. FOR SALE Steinway upright piano, very cheap if sold at once. 1107 W. Sth St. FOR SALE :d hand furniture and stoves. 832 Kansas ave., upstairs. FOR SALE Grocery and meat market, best corner in Topeka. S. M., Journal. FOR SALE A second hand upright pia no, nearly new, cheap. 921 E. 6th st FOR SALE Brick, $6 per M. Ind. 'phone 1033. Morse Contracting Co., 214 W. Gordon st. MISCELLANEOUS. DON'T forget that Isaac 14. Town, 210 W. 6th. carries a full stock of poultry and stock supplies. TOPEKA INTELLIGENCE OFFICE We keep a careful lis of reliabale help. Par ties dfsirintr to dispose of stock and other personal effects will profit by seeing us. Leave orders at 522 Kansas ave. Ind. Phone 1225. BANK STATEMENTS. (First published in the Topotts State Journal January 26. 1904.) So. 2.640. RFWinT nv THif nnvniTinv rw TTI TT FIRST .NATIONAL BANK at Topeka. in the state of Kansas, at ttia closa of business, January i2. 1904. EESOCKCE3. Loans and discounts Oveidrafts. secured and -unsecured U. bonds to secure cir culation. v. Premiums on U. 8. bonds. Banking house. furni ture and fixtures Other real estate owned.. $1,020,684 94 8,470 16 SOO.000 00 16,446 01 91.750 01 3,741 83 Due from National Banks (not reserve agents) Due from state banks and tl!9,500 00 2,523 75 i Due from approved re serve agents Internal revenue stamps. 222,533 63 fcxehauijes lor clearing house 100,409 Notes of other National banks 13.952 Fractional paper currency, nicKeis and cents 616 Specie 43.526 Legal tender notes 10,00.1 lietlempliou iuud wirli U. S. Treasurer 5 per cent of circulation) 79 60 00513,136 37 15 000 00 fl,964,2i9 31 Total. LIABILITIES Capital stock paid in $301,000 00 55,000 01 fcurmus tuna Undivided pronts less ex penses and taxes paid. National bank notes out standing Due to other National oanks Sl,9o0 44 Ilue to state banks and and bankers. 40,085 63 Due to trust companies and Saviims banks 3,126 80 Due to approved reserve agents 418 4S Dividends unpaid J12 00 Individual deposits sub ject to check 826,756 22 Demand certinoates of ueposit.. 432,354 97 Certitied checks 800 00 Cashier's checks out 3,514 97 300.000 00 standing 9 80 1,805,714 84 Total $1,964,229 81 State of Kansas, County of Shawaos. si: I. C. K. Hawley. cashier of the above named bank, do solemnly swear that tha auova statement is true to the best of my knowledge and belief. C. K. HAWLEV, Cashier. Correct Attest: TO. SIMS. CHAS. J. LANTRY, tllAS. J. DEVLIN. Directors. Subscribed and sworn to before me, this 25th day of January, 1904. IseauJ H. E. VALENTINE, Notary Public My commission expires December 29, 1904. (First published in Topeka State Journal, Jan. 26, 1904.) No. 3078. REPOKT OF THE CONDITION OF THJfi Central National Bank, of Topeka. In the State of Kansas, at the close ot business Jan. 2:1m :yn. RESOURCES. Loans and discounts S764.336 82 Overdrafts 214 97 V. s. bonds to secure circulation 250,000 03 U. S. bonds to secure U. S. deposits 100,000 00 Premium on U. S. bonds. 17.000 00 stocks, bonds, securities, 6.998 00 Furniture and fixtures... 2.50J 00 Investment In bank bide. 71.5U0 00 Due from Natioual banks (not reserve agents) Due from approved re $15, 854 48 serve agents 376, 065 89 313 52 ,239 50 ,780 00 S8 33 ,889 50 Checks ana otner casn items Exchange for clearing bouse Notes of other National banks Fractional currency, nickels and cents Specie Legal tender notes 60. 000 00 $654,092 22 Redemption fund with U. S. treasurer Total LIABILITIES. Capital stock paid in JE.500 03 Sl.879,142 01 $250,000 00 40,000 01 surplus tuna Undivided profits less ex penses and taxes paid. Circulation outstanding Due to other National banks $26,753 89 Due to state banks and bankers 55,462 18 Due to Trust companies and Savings banks 9,357 24 Individual deposits sub ject to check 979,754 W Demand certificates of deposit 143.541 60 Certified checks 1,132 00 Casluer's checks out standing 1S.4S3 51 D. S. Deposits 100,000 00 4.656 94 250.000 00 $1,834,485 07 Total 41,879,142 01 State of Kansas. County of Shawnee, si. I, P. 1. Bonebrake. president of the above named bank, do solemnly swear that the above statement Is true according to the best of my knowledge and belief. P. I. BONEBRAKE. President. Correct Attest: C. S. DOWNING, J. 1). NORTON, CHAS. J. DEVLIN Directors. Subscribed and sworn to before me this 25th day of January, 1904. (Seal.) GEO. B. MANNING, Notary Public. My commission expires Sept. 13th, 1905. First published In Topeka State Journal Jan. 26. 1904. 1 KErORT OF THE CONDITION of the Merchants National Bank at Topeka, in the State of Kansas, at the close of business Jan. 22. 1004: RESOURCES. Loans and discounts $509,400.37 Overdrafts, secured and unsecured... 3,SS2.54 U. S. bonds to secure circulation 100.00.1.00 Other stocks and bonds on hand 28,344.76 Due from approved reserve agents $333,403.26 Due from other national banks 22,407.70 Checks and other cash Items 13,504.58 Exchange for clearing house 12,252.93 Bills of other National banks 21,893.00 Fractional currency, nick els and cents 427.66 Gold and silver cola 40.5S'2.50 Igal tender notes 45.51.00 490.051.68 Redemption fund with U. S. Treasurer 5,000.00 $1.1:16,673.34 LIABILITIES. Capital stock paid In $100,000.00 Surplus fund 8,000.00 Undivided profits, less expenses and taxes paid 8.930.30 National bank notes outstanding 100,000.00 Due to national banks $5,099.83 Due to state banks and bankers 28.554.28 Individual deposits 791,684.39 Demand certificates of de posit 76,531.56 Certified checks outstand ing 200.00 Cashier's checks 17.679. ua-919.749. 01 tl. 138.679. 34 State of Kansas. County of Shawnee, ss: I. y. M. Bonebrake. cashier of the aboTa named bank, do solemnly swear that toe above statement is true to Hie best of my knowledge and belief. F. M. BONEBRAKE. Cashier. Subscribed and sworn to botore me, this 2stb dav of January, 1904. tSeal W. a GALLOWAY, Notary PuOlio. My commission expires Oct 9, 1907. Correct Attest: W. A. L THOMPSON, CHAS. BLOOD SMITH, W. W, MILLS. Directors. STBATED OB STOLEN STRAYED-JFrom 17th and Lincoln, large black horse, both hind feet white, small star in forehead. Suitable reward for his return to I. S. Curtis. STRAYED From my farm, smell brown stallion Shetland pony. Finder reward, O. P. UpdegrafT. MONET. MONEY TO LOAN on live atocV, pianos. organs, typewriters, household foods and personal security. L. Biscoc. o23 ban. Ave. $600 TO LOAN on good real estate secur ity. Aitrea isane, r,i clay st. CONTBACTOBS AND BUILDERS BUZICK WILSON, contractors and builders. Job work a specialty. 120 E. Sth St. Ind. 'phone 1244. FLORISTS. MRS. M. E. HOLCRAFT, 817 Kultu ave. Cut flowers aud floral designs. 'Phone 174k CUT FLOWERS and floral designee M Hayes'. 107 W. 8th et. Both 'phones 77. 6TOKAGE MERCHANTS' TRANSFER STORAGE Co. packs, ships and storett household goods. Tel in. Clarence Skinner, ill Qu!ncy st. UNDEBTAKERS A EMBALMEBS DEMOSS PFNWELL. Funeral Direc tors and Embalmers. First class service reasonable prices. 611 Quincy. Both tels. lVk, GEO. B. PALMER, undertaker. Estab lished 187L Prices reasonable. Tel. office 146. Residence Si. 621 Jackson et. PHYSICIANS AND SURQEON3. IDA C. BARNES, M. D. Orflce 726 Kansas ave. Residence Thir teenth and Clay. Office hours: S a. in. ta 11 a. m. and 3 p. m. to 5 p. m. Telephone LjS residence, and 16 office. STAMPS, SEALS AND STENCILS THE J. C. DARLING CO.. 734 Kan. ave. Rubber stamps, brass and aluminum trade checks. Prices low. Catalogue free.Tel. Jtt. PA VINO. ned Brick and Paving Co., has been re moved io 118 W. otij IL TOPS.KA FREE DISPENSARY, south. east corner 12th and Tyler sts., from 1 to 2 p. except Sundays. Conducted by regular practicing physicians tor tha benelit cf persona without means who need medical attention and treatment. Pa tients are assured of careful and consid erate ti ea mien t. Medicine furnished most cases. BICYCLES AND REPAIRING. TOPEKA AUTOMOBILE AND CTCLB Co. Tel. 706. Bicycles and sundries, bi cycles and tandems for rent; repairing ot all kinds. U. S. CYCLE CO., 118 E. 8th t. National Iver-Johnson bicycles Supplies, repairs. JAMES B. HAYDEN. Jeweler and Onu cian. Complete slock of watches, dia monds, silverware, etc. Eyes examined and spectacles properly fitted. FUBNACE COBNICE WORKS G. E. SEYBOLD, theurnaenanhas movea ins tin snop to ydl Jvansas -ive. JEWELEB AND OPTICIAN. F. VVSWAR1NGEN, JeweiecVnd "grad 'jr.te optician. We guarantee every pair of glasses to fit and every watch we re pair. We carry the largest line of watches, clocks, diamonds, cut glass, etc, in the city. Watch inspector L". P. R. a.. Z4 K.snsas ave. HAIR. DBESSINGt. SWITCHES, pompaaours, all kinds ot hall work. Mrs. Van Vlsck. 222 E 5th. MUSICAL. GEO. N. NEWTON, 114H W. Sth. Piano tuning ana repairing; expert action reg ulating and voicing. WOKRAL, 715 Polk, piano tajsons. pupil's nome. wc. cnurcft and looge piayinir tree. EDUCATIONAL. PRIVATE lessons in common branches. Miss lennis, 817 'lyjer St. Ind. phone COAL DEALERS. SOUTHWESTERN FUEL. CO., TllLlJ'HONi; 193. N. E. COR. 8TH AND KAN. ATA All kinds of Coal. Beut Quality. Full Weight. Prompt Delivery. J. W. F. HUGHES, coal dealer. 'Phones 40U. cinice and yards 1st and Adams. All kinds coal; blacksmith coal best quality. PATENTS. J. A. ROSEN. Patent Attorney, 418 lUo eaa ave., Topeka. JIAHDWARR THE COUGHLIN HARDWARE CO. Hardware, stoves, fine tools. 706 Kabsaa ave. Tel. 606. BAILBOAD TIME TABLES. TIME TABLE Topeka, Kansas. The "Right Road" To and From and Between OMAHA DENVER COLORADO SPG3 FORT WORTH C-P P A l'I CHICAGO ST. LAJCtS MEMPHIS TH.- IDI A ST. JOSEPH ivAr. SA3 uii MINNEAPOLIS And Everywhere Beyond. (Etxective Jan. 3, inn. TRAINS LEAVE TuPEKA AS FOL LOW S No 12, Chicago Mail and Express. No 14, East Ex. and Mail No. 4, El Faso and Chicago Ex... -.,Ur'. .In and K i' 3:35 pm 6:00 am 6:15 am 7-41 fair. U. 1A1, (.uiu,- J No 44 Golden State Limited No 44 ooiaen omie ijihuiwi o .o pm No! 512, Colorado anC Ex.... etfipm 5 35 pm ,i rhlrflKn and Tex. Ex 19-. No. 9, 'Colorado Flyer 8:25 pm No. 13, iexas e-a. am No 3 California and Mexico Ex. .11:50 pm No! 43. Golden State Limited n-.ia am No. 511. Colorado Lx 12:55pm No. 54. St Joe Ex... 7:46 am No. 32. St. 0H.f?D"-'-- P No. 31, Chicago Ex... 12:35 pm No. 63, S. W. Ex 8:05 pin All trains daily. For sleeping car reservations, tickets, time tables, etc., apply to any Rock Island Ticket Agent. Union Pacifls. EASTBOUND. 8 limited S, Kansas City local pass 4, Atlantic exp.-ess Arrive. 6:50 am 7:55 am 2:50 pm 5.50 pra 11 :20 am 12:50 pro 6:30 pm 7:45 pm No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. 6. K. C ana sauna express.. WESTBOUND. 7, K. C. and Salina express... 3, Denver and Pac Coast ltd. 6, Junction City local pass.. 1 limited Daily except Sunday. All -others dally. Missouri Pacific fEffectlve July 5. 1903.) No. SOI, passenger, leave Topeka :48 am No. 315, Iccal, leave Topeka 7:00 am No. S'i2, pa-ienger. arrive Topeka ...3:50 pro No. tlL let, arrive Toptka ;00M

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10 TOPEKA STATE JOURNAL, THURSDAY EVENING. JANUARY 28, 1904. CHEAP 2,000 yards of high-grade Silk, Velour Silks, in beautiful dress patterns, Taffeta Silks, China Silks, Pongee Silks, in plain and fancy colors, going on sale at about 14 their actual value. VVe closed out this job of 2,000 yards of Silk, for one lump sum, and start the sale FRIDAY MORNING at less than the regular wholesale price on Broadway, divided into four lots aste!ow: Any Ladies' Jacket in stock, Misses' Jackets, worth up to values up to $10.00, choice $375 $3bqq $1.98 Children's Jackets, worth up Misses' Long Coats, worth to $2.50- up to $6.50 98c $3.00 ABOVE, PRICES FOR FRIDAY AND SATURDAY ONLY he Topeka Gash Dry Goods Go. EZT3 I? Fi 507 Kansas Avenue. J. B. Spear, Proprietor. LOT 1 Silks that sold up to 50c on sale at per yard. LOT 2 Consists of all Silks sold up to Ybc a yard p on sale, choice T per yard LOT 3 Consists of all Silks sold up to $1 per yard choice that 35c LOT 4 Consists of all Silks sold up to 3d. 50 per yara cnoice, per yard 48c i 95 BODIES TAKEN OUT. Out of These but 21 Have Been Identified. Pittsburg, Jan. 28. Ninety-five bodies had been taken from the Harwick mine at noon today. Thirty more are at the foot of the shaft ready to be brought up and probably fifty are still in the mine. Te Identified number twenty-one. Before evening the first funerals will have been over and some at least of the victims of the disaster will have found their resting place. All night long the work of cleaning up the mine was carried on. The left heading of the south main level has been thoroughly inspected. The bodies there have all been recovered and the work in the right heading is now being pushed forward rapidly. A squad of men was put to work to day digging graves for the victims in the plot of ground adjoining the Lu theran cemetery, half way between here and Sprindale. It is in this plot that those miners who have no friends able to bear the expense of a burial will be Interred. MB. KEEPER'S JOKE. Perhaps You Will See It and Perhaps You Won't. The following is from the Washington Post: "Irrigation Bill" Reeder, of Kansas. In diligent search for good Jokes to make his constituents laugh when he gets back to his native heath, has found something which he thinks is very funny. "It was handed to me," said "Irri gation Bill" yesterday, "by a real friend." The funny thing, which, in the estimation of the witty Kansan, beats the "How Old la Ann" racket all to pieces, Is a bit of doggerel, as follows: If Johnrrle Jones has seven dogs And every dog is white; And fourteen cats come chasing round, Each one as black as night; And each two cats have eighteen lives Less three destroyed by rats, How many lives must three dogs take Before they kill eight cats? "Irrigation Bill" has a funny answer to this all prepared, but he refuses to divulge it till he gets on the stump in Kansas. If the wicked newspapers should tell before he arrived, reasons Mr. Reedes, what use would there be of telling the joke anyway. To "cinch" it he proposes to consult with Repre sentative John J. Gardner, of New Jersey, who is very wise about "catch problems." and who works them out in his sleep, to see if his conclusions are perfectly safe. To Consider Wages. Indianapolis, Ind., Jan. 28. The bi tuminous coal operators of Indiana, Ohio, western Pennsylvania and Illi nois, the central competitive district. In which 117,000 miners are employed, met today to take up the consideration of the wages and working conditions Ranch It and rough it and you'll soon get rid of that weak, chest and that hack ly cough." That is what the doctor said to a young married man with a wife ana child to care for and a modest salary to support them on. He couldn't go West. Love and duty tied him to his desk in the city. People don't have to travel to cure coughs or strengthen weak lungs. Dr. Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery cures ob Btinate, deep-seated coughs, bronchitis, bleeding of the lungs, weakness, emaciation and other forms of disease which if neglected or unskill fully treated terminate fatally in con sumption. "I will write you what Dr. Pierce's Golden Medical Disccery has done for me," savs George H. Belcher, Esq., of Dorton, Pike County, Kv. Thirteen years ago Lwas wounded by a ball passing through tuy lung. I have had a bad cougrh almost ever since, with shortness of breath, and it was very esy to take co'.d the slightest chauge cf weather would cause the cough to be so bad I would have to sit up is bed all night. Could not eat 6r sleep at times was all run down could not work at all. A few months ago I began using Dr. Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery. Have not used more than two bottles, and now can eat, sleep, and work, and I feel like a new man. I cannot find words to sufficiently recommend Dr. Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery, or tell the good it haa done me." Dr. Pierce's Common Sense Medical Adviser in paper covers is sent fret on receipt of 21 one-cent stamps to pay expense of mailing only. The book has Ioc8 pages and over 700 illustrations. Address Dr. R. V. Fierce, Buffalo, N. Y. for the year beginning April 11. The first session was largely given to orga nization and preliminary speeches. JEFFRIES IN NEW ROLE. Big Pugilist Stops Runaway and Saves Woman's Life. New York. Jan. 28. Champion Heavy weight James J. Jeffries has distinguish ed himself by stopping a runaway team in Central park and saving from proba ble serious injury the man and wife who were being carried rapidly toward a nar row bridge spanning a gorge through the drive. A bit had broken between the jaws of a spirited horse attached with its mate to the sleigh. The animals had run some distance and were approaching the bridge at rapidly increasing speed, when Jeffries, ap proaching in a cab, heard the woman's .screams. Looking ahead he saw the runaways and sprang to the ground. He seized the near horse by the head and was dragged along some distance, but managed with his free hand to grip the horse's nostrils, choking it quickly into submission. The woman in the sleigh was slightly hurt, but Jeffries was uninjured. KILLED A BURGLAR And Sent Another Away With a Wound. St. Louis. Mo., Jan. 28. Awakened by the barking of his dog Paul W. Deeh man ran fiom his sleeping room into his drug store today and there fought a pistol duel with one burglar and in stantly killed another. Eight shots were exchanged, all at close range. The burglar whom Dechman first encount ered fled after being wounded when the the druggist turned and killed his com panion. Dechman's drug store Is a branch postoffce and does a heavy money order business. ALL ABOUT A DITCH. Silver Lake and Menoken Farmers in a Controversy. The farmers In Silver Lake and Meno ken townships are in trouble over the drainage ditch which is intended to carry off the surface water in the low lands of those townships to Soldier creek. The ditch has gradually filled up and clogged until now it does not carry off the water, but causes it to back up and overflow a large area of land. The farrwirs in Silver Lake township want the diten opened. The farmers in Menoken township object, as they think the open ing of the ditch would cause their farms to be overflowed by water the ditch could not carry. The MenoKen farmers tnreat en to bring injunctions if the Silver Lake farmers attempt to open the ditch. The ditch is ten miles long and was ex cavated m 1S81. The ditch was original!? 16 feet wide. The farmers aided in the work by using their teams in making the excavation. Some of the farmers worked for three months on tne ditch. Wilson Caught at Bed Oak. Sheriff Lucas received a telegram from Sheriff Moore ot Ked oaK, la., tnis morn ing that J. Wilson is in custody there. Wilson is the man who passed a worth less check for S24 on E. Ulamperl some weeks ago. Lucas left this afternoon to bring Wilson to Topeka. SOUTH TOPEKA. Leave Items for this column with tha Kimball Printing company. 912 Norta Kansas avenue. Ed Lueche was in today from Silver Lake. William Russell Is here today from Merlden. G. W. Harper, of Menoken, was a North side visitor today. Plenty of new roller skates have ar rived. Skating every night. Miss Lula Garverich, of Salina, Is the guest of Miss Minnie Kuehne. Mrs. C. W. Crouch is ill with grip at her home on East Laurent street. Mrs. J. H. Rhodes of Atchison is here visiting her daughter, Mrs. M. Grady. The Duplicate Whist club will meet Friday afternoon at the home of Mrs. H. F. Guthrie, 1420 Harrison street, south. There will be a. cottage prayer meet ing Friday evening, January 29, at the home of Mr. and Mrs. E. S. Smith, 1220 West Norris street. A. B. Rose left last evening for Val paraiso, lnd., in response to a tele gram announcing the serious illness of his aunt. Mr. and Mrs. Brcrvvnell are up from Burlingame to attend the Midwinter fair and visiting Mr. and Mrs. John W. Miller, of 1523 Quincy street. Mr. Bonecutter has rented the J. R. Madison property at 511 Park street and will shortly move his family there. Mr. Bonecutter is employed at the Un ion Pacific depot. Mrs. Carl Klemp and son of Chicago, arrived here to attend the funeral of John Nichols. They are visiting with B. F. and A. N. Goodman, father and brother of Mrs. Klemp. Miss Ama Miller Is here from Still water, Minn., having been called by the death of her father, Mr. George Miller, which occurred Monday at his home, 219 Winfield avenue, Oakland. The Colored Republican league of North Topeka will meet at 821 Tyler street Saturday night at 8 o'clock. All members are requested to be present. There will be speaking by Congress man Curtis, J. B, Letts and others. HE INSTRUCTS M'COLLUM. Mr. Spencer Says Sis Evidence Must Agree With Charge. City Attorney Charles F. Spencer to day wrote to Chief of Police McCol- lum a letter advising him to make no more arrests "on view" except in cer tain specified kinds of cases. The letter s the result of the failure of a number of prosecutions attempted by Chief Mc Collum in which the only evidence ad mitted by the court was that which the policeman who made the arrest was able to give. 'It is unwise and almost criminal, said City Attorney Spencer, "to make arrests 'on view' when the district court has ruled so strictly that the evidence must be limited to what is obtained at the time the arrest is made. It simply makes court costs for the city to pay. My letter to Chief Mc- Collum is simply intended to be a friendly suggestion that care be exer cised in making arrests." Mr. Spencer stated that the letter to Chief McCollum was not intended as a private communication, but was in the nature of an open letter. It is as sumed that Mr. Spencer wants his posi tion to be known to the public, so that if McCollum keeps on making arrests on view, the city attorney will not get the blame for the failure of subsequent prosecutions. Several cases have lecently been tried in the district court which involved the points mentioned in Mr. Spencer s let ter. The letter after a reference to '-he disorderly house decision is as follows: "I also take this occasion to suggest, as I have already done before a num ber of times, that under the well es tablished rule of law in cases where there has been an arrest on view, the evidence must be confined to the of fense viewed by the officer at the time of the arrest and for which the de fendant was arrested. Judge Hazen followed this rule in the introduction of testimony in the trial of Mike Han- ley on the charge of vagrancy last Tuesday. "It should be at once apparent that arrest on view cannot be made prac tically applicable and effective in va grancy cases and rarely effective in many other cases. Cases of this kind should be prosecuted on written com plaints so that any competent and ma terial evidence can be used on the trial. There are, in fact, but comparatively few instances in which prosecutions in cases of arrest on view can be made effective. "In most cases it is necessary to sup plement the evidence with other evi dence than that which can be used where the arrest is on view. Prosecu tions in cases of arrest on view should be confined to cases where the offense is complete in some specific act. Among the cases in which arrest on view can he made effective are such as leaving team unhitched, riding bicycle on the sidewalk, selling or serving liquor or being found in the possession of liquors in a place having the usual joint fix tures and gambling. However, in many of these cases the prosecution can be made much more effective on a written complaint. "The material question involved is not whether arrest on view is lesral, but whether an offense was being com mitted in the presence of the officer at the time of the arrest for which the defendant can be convicted. "I am ready at all times in the fu ture, as in the past, to advise with and DRINK EVIL DRUNKENNESS CURED TO STAT CURED BY White Ribbon Remedy I announce to the world that I have an absolute cure for drunkenness in White Ribbon Remedy, based on thousands of cures made in the most obstinate cases. In a majority of eases White Ribbon Rem edy was given secretly in tea, coffee or food, without the patient's knowledge. By degrees the patient gets a distaste for in toxicants and finally leaves oft altogether. It is wonderful. Many a hard drinker has thus been reclaimed and restored to his family and friends. White Ribbon Rem edy is easily given by following the sim ple directions. It is tasteless, odorless and perfectly safe to giv or take. White Ribbon Remedy will cure or de stroy the diseased appetite for all alco holic drinks, whether the patient is a con firmed inebriate, a "tippler," social drink er or drunkard. Impossible for any one to have an appetite for alcoholia liquors after using White Ribbon Remedy. It restores a victim to normal health, givli. him or her steady nerves, and a determi nation to resist temptation. Builds up the will power. Indorsed and Sold by Members of a Woman's Christian Temperance Union. Mrs. Anna Moore. Press Superintendent of the Woman's Christian Temperance union, Los Angeles, Cal.. states: I have tested White Ribbon Remedy on very ob stinate drunkards, and the cures have been maay. I cheerfully recommend and Indorse White Ribbon Remedy, and advise ativ woman to give it to any relative suf fering from drunkenness. Sold by druggists everywhere, 50c and II. Trial package free by writing or calling on Mrs A. M. Townsend (for years secretary of a Woman's Christian Temperance un ion). 218 Tremont St., Boston, Mass. Spe cial agent in Topeka. M. WEIGHTMAN. 833 K ana as Ave. assist von at any time you may dasire such advice and assistance. "Yours truly, "CHAS. F. SPENCER, "City Attorney." COFFINS MADE OF GLASS. Bathtubs, Too, Are Composed of This Usually Fragile Material. The peculiar forms assumed by glass dropped in a molten condition on the damp ground have been noticed by thousands of observers from time im memorial, but not until recently did it occur to anyone to imitate these conditions and blow glass by steam generated by its own heat. Hitherto the size of glass vessels has been limit ed by the power of the human lungs and the ability to manipulate the mass hanging from the blowpipe, for at tempts to substitute compressed air have been only partially successful, and the present glass process, develop ed especially in America, also has its limitations. Other objections to the usual method of glass blowing are the injurious ef fects on the workmen and the waste of time and material due to the fact that the neck of the vessel, as blown, cannot be larger than the blowpipe, and must be cut off after the glass has cooled. For example, glass storage battery cells, now in great demand, have to be cut down one-half. In the new process devised by Paul Sievert of Dresden the molten glass is poured on a wet asbestos mat, which is constantly agitated. The glass does not touch the mat, but, like a drop of wa ter on a hot iron, is supported by steam generated in great volume and escap ing freely on all sides. If now a hol low mold is pressed firmly down on the glass while it is still sftft the steam, no longer able to escape, forces the glass up into every part of the mold. The perfection with, which this is done is remarkable. If the mold is very deep the upward rush of steam may make the glass too thin in soots, or even perforate it, nence for deep vessels the process is modified. The glass is pourod on a wet metal plate, which is inverted with the mold immedi ately after the latter is applied The soft sheet of glass now sinks gradually into the mold by its own weight, becom ing thickest at the bottom. At tne proper moment the wet asbestos is sub stituted for the metal plate and the rapid development of vapor Presses the glass downward into all the details o the mFor still larger vessels, such as bath tubs and coffins, compressed air is sub stituted for steam generated by the heat of the glass itself, The glas s is poured on a hot perforated u;m j-... and dimensions of the open top of the vessel to be made. hen the liquid glass reaches the edge it fills a groove between the plate and a surrounding iron ring and there quickly solidifies and adheres Then the plate is inverted. The erlass, still soft except at the edge, sacs or "bellies" and stretches as in the mfthod just described. At the. proper moment the plastic glass bag is uc oed in a mold made in sections, into which it ta pressed by air forced through the per forations of the iron PlaA Jm! entire operation occupies only seven min utes and the vessel is stronger than one VaroSaEed on one side are made by blowing the cylinders m engraved molds Glfss. panes are aso made by hlowintr elass in a cubical mold. ne re umng glass box when cut at the edges ylIomeflofethen;roducts of the new met h odSs0na,ree0decora?ed 1 colors with pulve SsTriiSon "the asbestos mat.- Boston Herald. ONLY ONE TICKET. There Will Be Nona but Curtis Dele gates Voted for Here. The preparations for the Curtis pri maries in Shawnee county have been completed by H. M. Philips, treasurer of the Boss Busters and chairman of the Republican county central committee. The primaries will be held Friday afternoon from a to 6 o'clock. Chairman Philips has had small tickets printed for each ward and precinct bearing the official ballot heading and the names of the Curtis delegates selected by the county committee. No other tickets have been printed and no blank ballots have been printed to be used by anyone who might wish to vote for others than the Curtis delegates. Those who go to the polls will have to vote tor Curtis oi not vote at all. Chairman Philips will fololw the same policy in the county primaries February 27 and will print but one ticket to go before the voters in each ward. Hotel Employes Arrested. William Austin and Mattie Moore were arrested today by a warrant from the city court charging them with steal ing $45 belonging to H. S. McAdams. McAdams left $45 under his pillow at the Chesterfield hotel. When he re turned to get it he found it gone. The defendants are the porter and chamber maid at the hotel and the only ones who were supposed to have entered the room. Good Coal at Keduced Prices. We are obliged to move a large stock of Arkansas Anthracite and Semi anthraeite coal on account of certain changes in our yard, buildings and sheds due to changes made by the Santa Fe to accommodate their new freight depot. In order to move this coal quickly we have made a large re duction in the price. Preference will be given in the delivery of these coals. THE SOUTHWESTERN FUEL COMPANY, HI VI ERA VEGETATION. The Interesting Notes of a Nature Loving Tourist. It seemed to me that the poets of the south have exaggerated the beauty of the olive tree. Indeed, I saw no beauty in it at all. The leaves look as if they had been blanched by sulphur, and the trunks of the shambling older trees as if they had been hacked up with an ax. The younger trees are more graceful, but don't appeal to the sympathies of one from the land of shapely spruce and pines, the ash, the maple and the elm. The splayed and yawing frag ments of an old olive trunk have an uncanny look, as of some nightmarish Dore illustration in Dante's "Inferno." The only lemon groves I could set eyes on north of Naples were one or two at Cap d'Antibes, and two or three near Mentone. At Fiesole there was a gar den full of lemons grown in big terra cotta tubs. The oranges of the Riviera are wretched, all the best fruit, heavy and sweet juice, coming from Spain, Sicily and Jaffa. The grounds at Monte Carlo are full of the fragrant pittospor ums.. They scent the air around with the very perfume of the orange blos som, only it is not at all overpowering or offensively sweet, but delicate and sense-quickening, like wafts of fresh frosty air. We are so used to thinking of the hawthorne hedge as a feature of Eng lish landscape that I dare say it will surprise many to be told that the biancaspina is almost as common in the Pisan plain and in parts of south ern Italy especially along railway banks as it is in England. Everywhere in Italy and France the trees are plentifully mutilated. Where they are allowed to grow to their natural height as they sometimes are on the Italian coast I observed they lean from the southwest, as they do all over Amer ica. Of course, where silkworm culture is carried on, as between Milan and Como, it is necessary that the mulberry trees be trained low for convenience in pick ing the larvaes. Where grapes are grown it is hard to tell why living saplings are universally planted and trimmed down as support for the vines, unless It is that ground could not be spared for coppices or that the fruit ripens best in partial shade. In France and Germany the vines are simply tied to upright sticks. De scriptions of the vine in Italy by tourists are always vague and sentimental, and I had wondered how in the world grapes could ripen in the shade of large trees. A glance explained all; the trees turned out to be no taller than hop poles, and so trimmed to a few horizontal branches trained lengthwise of the row that the shading was reduced to a minimum. The vines hung in loops or festoons from sapling to sapling, as if taking hold of hands. On the foothills south o the Campagna, travelers may see grapevines grown around a bunch of dead poles tied together wigwam fashion at the top. The sapling trees are rarely more than 15 feet high, generally not so much. In one region only, and that near Naples, did I see the vines trained on tolerably large trees, swinging from bole to bole, like spider webs. That the hotter sun does not necessitate this I discovered by the vine yards on the fiery southern slope of Ve suvius, which are trained low and have scarcely any shade. From the Conservator. Georgia's Heaviest Snow. Atlanta, Ga., Jan. 28. The heaviest snowfall ever known since the local weather bureau was established fell last night and today to a depth of eight inches. The temperature dropped to freezing last night, but is rising today. Street car traffic was interrupted. Everybody reads the State Journal. AT THE BILLIARD TOURNEY J. D. Smith and Arthur Marcotte Open the Ball. New York, Jan. 28. J. De Munn Smith of St. Louis and Arthur Marcotte, th Canadian champion, have been selected to play the opening billiard match of tha amateur championship tournament which begins next Monday night at the Lieder kranz club. Because of the failure of Wilson F. Foss to enter, the winner of the tourna ment will become the recognized national amateur champion. MISLED Ji HIS CLIENT. Lawyer Drops the Case on Learning the Truth. Chicago. Jan. 28. The trial of James Gordon Tilbury, former coachman for Mrs. Hollis M. Thurston, a. prominent so ciety woman, was today Interrupted by the withdrawal from the case of Tilbury's attorney, M. Emmett Clare. Attorney Clare stated in court that he had been misled into the belief that Tilbury had received certain letters from Mrs. Thurs ton of an incriminating character. Owing to Tilbury's inability to produce tliesi letters he had decided to withdraw from the case. Taxes Are Reduced. County Treasurer Bowen has been no tified by the state treasurer that Shaw nee county's state tax has been reduced $1,447.38 on account of the rebates al lowed for flood damage. Marian I showed these verses you wrote me to papa and he seemed pleased. Harry Did he? Marian Yes. He said he was so pleas ed to see you were not a poet. New Yorker. WEIGHT ON YOU There's nothing lacking from the argument that you are suffering from a disorder you don't understand. The weight of the argument is there pressing on your stomach depressing your whole spirit and being. It makes you a Stomach Coward. In trying to relieve you, many friends and some doctors are proving their stomach ignorance. You must learn this: THERE ARE A LOT OF NERVES GOVERNING THE GASTRIC AND DIGESTIVE APPARATUS OF YOUR STOMACH. Your sluggish bowels get them out of order. The weight on Your Stomach is a Ner vous Disorder. The other symptoms you know dyspepsia, sleeplessnes, dizziness, palpitation, fits of blues and general nervous depression. You get dizzy and walk about in dreadful uncertainty. You have got to fix up those stomach nerves before you can lift the weight. Br. Greene's Nervura Restores The Normal Stomach Condition When you take a tablespoonful of Dr. Greene's Nervura directly before a meal, and another directly after the meal, that weight does not come down on your stomach. In two days' time the spectre of a big dinner vanishes. You don't have to remain a slave to your stomach or to medicine. Dr. Greene's Nervura attends to the stomach, where the real distress and the real danger lie. It may require a few days to get the stomach exactly toned, but the relief is marked from the first day. Dr. Greene's Nervura is, without any question, the very finest remedy for bad digestion and for weakened stomachs that the world has ever known. It is positively necessary to mend the nervous weakness of the stomach to regulate its action and re-establish its natural functions. The stom ach secretions have been interfered with. Dr. Greene's Nervura will do this where no other remedy will have the desired effect. If you are constipated, and most stomach suffer ers are, don't take the first cathartic that comes along, because the means you are employing to make your bowels act is one of the things that is ruining your stomach and your digestion. Take Dr. Greene's Nervura before and after your meals, and write to Br. Greene about your condition, especially about your constipation. You will get Dr. Greene's advice free, and it will be the advice which exactly fits your case. Doctors usually make light of constipation, and the reason none of them cures stomach trouble permanently is that they don't know how to make your bowels perform their regular function with out upsetting the stomach. "Write or call on Dr. Greene, 101 Fifth Avenue, New York, for the advice that is known to effect a cure in all these obstinate and chronic eases. The person who begins to-day to take Dr. Greene's Nervura for stomach trouble, and will take a little before and a little after each meal, will be surprised to find' his very first meal will be digested with perfect comfort, and after two or three days he will become an ardent advo cate of Dr. Greene's Nervura, which has cured its thousands and tens of thousands, and stands to-day the conqueror of stomach troubles of every form. It takes away that awful weight, and it does it at once. It attacks every nervous disease, first, through the stomach nerves. Your Druggist recommends and sells Dr. Greene's Nerwa.